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  • Burgersdorp’s Spring Somerfees.

    Burgersdorp’s Spring Somerfees.

    Our exhibition at the annual Burgersdorp Spring Festival was an enjoyable and worthwhile in the end, despite the disastrous weather on the first day.

  • Road through the Mopanes

    Road through the Mopanes

    The beautiful woodland trees of Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) bring back wonderful nostalgic memories; and this Mopane forest is so reminiscent of those travels during my youth.

  • A little Study of the Cape Hare

    A little Study of the Cape Hare

    The Cape Hare has been a regular garden visitor lately, so it was an enjoyable task studying him through these sketches.

  • Karoo Interlude

    Karoo Interlude

    Despite my love for the tropical Bushveld of my youth, these vast reaches of the Karoo have become an enduring inspiration in my search for new landscape to paint.

  • Rock Pigeons over the Sunflower Fields of the Freestate.

    Rock Pigeons over the Sunflower Fields of the Freestate.

    Rock Pigeons and fields of sunflowers posed some considerable challenges with this commission.

  • Sheep Study Two

    Sheep Study Two

    The ease and convenience of digital photography has made it possible to capture our sheep, in every quirky and entertaining pose. I doubt that I will ever lack inspiration.

  • Remembering the 90’s, & Bon Jovi

    Remembering the 90’s, & Bon Jovi

    As an avid fan of Bon Jovi during the 1990’s I painted a couple of portraits in oil that have been gathering dust in the corner of the studio until recently when a friend asked to see them.

  • Beautiful Bokmakierie

    Beautiful Bokmakierie

    Beautiful and lemon-bright Bokmakieries in our winter garden are a delight to see and sketch !

  • Old World Vulture – visions

    Old World Vulture – visions

    The recent commission to paint Whitebacked vultures in the Maasai Mara in Kenya, inspired me to make some extra sketches.

  • Serengeti Cats

    Serengeti Cats

    Wild Cats of the Serengeti and the grassveld were the challenges of this recent set of commissioned paintings.

  • A quiet country road after the rain.

    A quiet country road after the rain.

    This captivating little road scene inspired me after a recent trip to Johannesburg.

  • Sheep study one. Resting against the workshop wall.

    Sheep study one. Resting against the workshop wall.

    Photographing our sheep through all the seasons & years of living on a sheep farm continually inspires me to paint them.