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2019 | Lesotho Highlands in Summer time
This is a series of six small oil paintings on canvas.
They were inspired by the colours and landscape of the Lesotho highlands in the Semonkong area. At this higher altitude the air is thinner, the sound clearer. The clanging of cow bells, sheep and dokeys communicating their daily news travels far into the distance. Deep gorges are nothing less than spectacular, scrubbed almost daily by loud and furious thunderstorms. The intense colour of the big sky and hills draw the eye into far vistas, quite a different experience to my usual surrounds in Cape Town.
Prints of these works measure 30cm x 30cm.
A Hint of Aloe (prints available)
Hard Rain (prints available)
In the Present (prints available)
Autumn Dusk (prints available)
Before the Colours Changed (prints available)
Sun and Sky (prints available)
2020 WORK
If Colour Could Sing (prints available)
This abstract pastel landscape on paper grew out of a season of intense sadness and loss and was the first work made after a creative dry spell.
The eye is led through the landscape by a series of repetitive bold strokes. Ochre, blue and varieties of green overlay soft and flowy oil paint glazes. As a result of the texture of the sanded paper and the powder of the pastels, the glazes pick up and puddle some of the pigment, creating a free-flowing, dreamy other-worldly vista. The colours are suggestive of the mountain slopes of the Western Cape in late summer. In late March in Cape Town one can hear and smell the change of season - from harsh burning sun and wind to more mild and temperate weather conditions.
That Day (prints available)
This abstract pastel landscape is a dark landscape with intense black charcoal marks on a background of dark olive green and black oil paint glazes. It was a piece of neccesity in a season of shattering loss, confusion and seemingly endless sadness.
The flow of the colours is random - I allowed them to flow where they willed. The top layers of this mixed media work are made up of very strong and vividly coloured pastel strokes. Something like hope attempts to rise and crystallize out of the darkness, where it struggles lighten the heaviness of the dark landscape.
Flowing Again (available)
This is an abstract mixed media work on paper.
The process was an experimentation with a monoprint as the base. Followed with the application of ink washes and pastel detail bringing out shapes suggesting a hillside with grassy slopes. Deep blue is the dominant colour, reflecting late summer colours, the season for big blue sky in the Western Cape, South Africa.
The background is criss-crossed with loose neutral colours and bright accent colours, muted olive green pastel and splashes of red.