Going Home

I grew up on a farm in Africa. In a place called Kiepersol.

My parents farmed coffee and avocados and my 3 siblings and I were truly blessed to call it home.

At age 5.5 we all left for boarding school,- at first as weekly boarders at Uplands Prep school in White River, and when we became teenagers we were shipped off to boarding school in Natal and returned to the farm for holidays 4 times a year.

... and so began the pilgrimages home. Sometimes we would fly, but mostly we would drive cross country. The promise of "home" in the truest sense, filling our hearts and souls as we covered the  miles in the chev constantia (with the bench seat & wind down window).

and after we all left school, and dispersed to different parts of the country and the world, the yearly pilgrimage home remained. 

i loved those trips and still do, 

so when the White River gallery invited me to do an exhibition, it seemed right to do a series of nostalgic landscapes from the road-trips home. The exhibition opens on the 23rd March 2012 and I have still a few paintings to do, but below are some of the paintings that are going on exhibition. They are all done in oilpaint onto gold and silver leaf