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Wednesday, May 4, 2016

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

Monday, November 17, 2014

Open Studios - Cape Town 2014

Here are images of some of the works I will have on sale for Open Studios 2014, at Eastside Studio, Ascot Centre, 20 Brickfield rd, woodstock. 28th & 29th November 2014.
The works are all oil on metal leaf on paper and the smallest are 35cm in width, and the largest are 70cmx70cm. All are framed.

Thursday, May 8, 2014

Lucent - A new Exhibition

                                                                    lu·cent (lo̅o̅′sənt)
                                                adj.
                                                   1. Giving off light; luminous.
                                                   2. Translucent; clear.
         [Latin lūcēns, lūcent-, present participle of lūcēre, to shine; see leuk- in Indo-European roots.]
                                                    lu′cen·cy n.
                                                    lu′cent·ly adv.

I met Francois Irvine on Valentines day 1986. It was our birthday, both of us, and so became also, the birthday of a brilliant, wonderful, astounding friendship.We were both doing a Fine Art Diploma at Durban Technicon in Kwa Zulu Natal, Francois majoring in printmaking, and I in painting.

Over the years we have remained brilliant friends and have shared many journeys.

Our most recent journey was creating work for our joint show "LUCENT". The title seemed apt for 2 reasons. The first because it speaks of luminocity, and that seems to be a great description of the relationship between us, and the second being that we both share a love of the effect and influence of light within and apon structure and form, and so in effect, our works are exploration of such.

Unfortunately, Francois broke his hand during the process of creating his work for the exhibition, and so will not be showing a complete body of work, but will have 3 works on show, and will exhibit the complete series later in the year.

Below are the works that I have on show along with sizes and mediums.

The Exhibition is taking place at Art in the Yard in Franschoek and opens on Saturday. The Literary Festival also takes place in Franschoek next week, so if you are in the area, please pop in!