Finding the thread...

The start of the year is always rocky for me as I grapple to move into a new year with new work, and find a path both exciting and challenging.
I ordered 2 large canvases - both 160x160cm and metal leafed them as I am wanton to do as the light play on the surface immediately comes to life and then I started to play...paint, pigment, glazes and eventually thread. I sent images out to the galleries I work with and the response was brilliant, and so I did a few more..
The inspiration for the works is an intense emotional response to certain music…ranging from Alt-J to Chet Baker to Kerouac’s collaborations with various Jazz musicians. The process of making the works is about taking a journey into my most private head/heart space, and expressing the beauty and the calm that exists there.

...and I began another portrait too...

 

Hong Kong Affordable Art Fair 2016

I have been invited by the Tanya Baxter Gallery to send work over for the Hong Kong Affordable Art Fair this year which I am really excited about. I sent over 2 new works of a girl I used to know, Irene was her name... Feeling blessed to be given the opportunity!
Here is a link to The Tanya Baxter Gallery, Kings Road, London. http://tanyabaxtercontemporary.com/index.php/latest-news

Abstraction: apart & together

I have not posted in a while and much has happened. I went to London to take part in an exhibition titled: Cohesive Clash at the Tanya Baxter Gallery at the beginning of April along with a number of other South African artists. The exhibition was a great success, and 2 weeks in London brilliant! While I was there, I had a show open at Art in the Yard in Franschhoek, with Frans Smit, titled Abstraction: apart and together. Frans and I share a studio, and so were privy to one anothers processes and progress in creating work for the show. Our style of painting differs greatly. For the show, I was exploring colourfields - layering of oil glaze onto large canvases based with silver leaf, searching for depth and bounce and light. Frans explored the abstraction of realism within portraiture. However, our works together seemed to feed off eachother, and we also did 4 collaborative works, overworking our individual styles and techniques over and into each others works.
Below are my works for the show, each measuring 150x150cm. All oil on silver leaf on canvas. I am also attaching a link to the gallery website where you can view the collaborative works, and Frans Smits amazing portraits. artintheyard.co.za