BIOGRAPHY

I’m a South African artist – born in Durban, and as a child moved all over beautiful South Africa, spending time in all areas from the Kalahari, Karoo, and Johannesburg and settled in Cape Town many years ago.  I started painting as a child, studied for a teacher, and worked in the financial sector. But I kept on painting through the years.

   

I am an observer, and I am inspired by music too.  It lifts my heart to see how beautiful His creation is, and I see His hand in everything. The movement and reflections of water, the sunlight breaking through clouds, and negative spaces as the blue-sky peeks through the trees.  Sometimes with music, an image pops into my mind and just sticks there until I try to paint it.   I start by absorbing the scene until I feel I know it. I then use small thumbnail sketches or a colour study. Finally finishing by using photos my husband took as references.  Trying to capture what we experience and feel on the canvas. 

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August 2017 over 10 years’ worth of work was stolen from my studio. 24 paintings. None of them have been recovered. Sometimes, I will pause when I see something that looks like one of them. It took some time, but I have moved on from this bad experience and will keep on painting.