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A full time visual artist working from my home studio in Cape Town.
A full time visual artist working from my home studio in Cape Town.
Biography
Biography
I am a full-time visual artist and painter/printmaker working in mixed media from my home studio on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, Cape Town. A born South African, I settled here 25 years ago after many years in Johannesburg and remain deeply connected to the natural beauty that surrounds me.
My creative path began in childhood, inspired by the farmlands and open landscapes around Durbanville. Growing up in the 1950s and 60s in a Georgian-style homestead with a wild garden at its heart, I was encouraged by my parents to explore every creative avenue — from ballet and theatre to piano and painting.
After winning the Santam Youth Art Competition in 1968, I spent several years working in design before enrolling at the Michaelis School of Fine Art in 1978 as a mature student. I was awarded the Irma Stern Scholarship for my MFA, which included a series of screen-printed public posters confronting the racist imagery of apartheid-era South Africa — work that was considered politically provocative at
the time.
In recent years, my practice has shifted toward a more non-representational expression of my environment through monoprint, collage, and painting. These works reflect my ongoing fascination with nature’s rhythms and the interplay between perception, memory,
and abstraction.
Artist Statement
Artist Statement
I work across a wide variety of media, using unconventional and found tools for mark-making to bring a sense of intuition and spontaneity to my process. I’m continually exploring new ways to enhance the immediacy of my method — creating works that are layered, dynamic, and full of energy.
My style has evolved from early collage-based, representational printmaking into a more abstract, gestural form of expression. The beauty of wide open spaces and the natural environment surrounding my Cape Town home continues to inspire me deeply.
I often juxtapose my earlier interest in local, contemporary imagery with a growing concern for the natural world. My current techniques emphasize expressive, complex layering, combining a strong sense of space with colour, texture, organic shapes, and gestural line.
My recent paintings and monoprints are intuitive responses to my environment — abstract impressions that invite the viewer to find their own meaning and emotional connection within them.
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