Showing posts with label Cape Town. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cape Town. Show all posts
an exhibition of painting, drawing and collage
My show, in which I just about exhaust my love of palms and foliage, opens on the 24th of April at Salon 91 in Cape Town. Inspired by a friend's suggestion, I called it Honeymoon to mark this particular time in my life. Mostly the work is about places - current, historical, remembered, imagined and hoped for. I often experience a strong impulse to share my visual experience of things and places with my significant other and this collection of images is to some degree an expression of that. Matthew scanned my process work briefly and stated that it looks like a group show by one person. An apt summary I guess because there'll be a variety of styles and mediums on show. I hope you will pay it a visit. It will show until the middle of May.
a good friday
It's about time this space got a little attention. I've been absent due to wonderful things. Things like getting married and going away for some rest and adventure. Speaking of which, I'm currently deeply busy preparing for my solo show next month.
It's called H O N E Y M O O N and I promise to share all the necessary details very soon.
In the meantime, here are two pictures Deon and Irene of Modern Hearts took on our wedding day. More, here. I'm a bit smitten with these two, they're the loveliest people and they take very beautiful pictures.
I'd rather be swimming
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Salon 91's December group show opens this Saturday morning the 1st, featuring work by gazillions of amazing local artists and I think the prices are going to be very very good. 10% of sales from I'd Rather be Swimming will go to the I am Water conservation trust.
Some things
I added a special picture to my sidebar - it'll hang out there for a bit. Matt balanced
it wonkily on a stile in the rain with a near dead battery and a full picture
card but my trusty Nikon miraculously managed to capture the moment following
one of the best moments of my life.
Poinsettias are blooming everywhere I look. I’ve never been
a huge fan but they are so festive and I used one in a recent Christmas table
illustration for a picture book coming later this year. It’s just too cold in
CT. My dad’s extra thick mohair socks are getting me through it but only
barely.
I said goodbye to my old hood. I vow to live there
again one day (God willing) when we can afford a pretty Victorian cottage and some yard space
for a pup and a fruit tree. For now it’s down to streamlined art deco inner city
living, which I love so far – though it sounds fancier than it is.
Here are some oranges I drew in Florence.
On Thursdays, I can now almost roll out of bed and round the block and fill my basket with fresh market stuff thanks to earthfair and my new address. Last week's plain oranges surprised me - they were red inside. This is kind of amazing, I've never found blood oranges before in SA. Is it just me?
People from over the sea have mailed to request prints and
since I’m already jogging to the post office weekly with Good Heavens orders, I
think it is about time I opened an Etsy shop. I’m making it a
priority. Hold me to it.
Autumn eggs in knits
Easter rings in warm colours and knits in this neck of the woods. I try to draw these patterned eggs every year (remember these that Matt made?) but made more than the usual three or four, probably because I'm a bit stressed out. They help me breathe and focus. Have a very happy and peaceful Easter. I'm going to make my favourite people a pot of tea now and then put on a heavy pullover and take Boris (the best Boerboel-Ridgeback in the world) for a walk in the wet park.
Skrikkel
PS Look how beautiful Dan Pearson's work is. Landscape designers (and paediatricians) give me serious career envy. Hearing him talk about his collaborative Tokachi Millennium Forest project at the Design Indaba this morning was extra special. x
Good Heavens, Red.
Matthew produced a beautiful collection of Good Heavens reds while I was away. We had fun naming them: Philly, Roger, Queenstown and Roffey. They're listed on Etsy, have a look.
(If you are in South Africa and interested in buying,
contact us directly: info@goodheavens.co.za)
a story about swimming lessons
It must be the coldest day of the year so far here so perhaps not the most appropriate pictures to post... However, these are part of a lovely show up at Salon91 in Kloof street until the ninth of next month which showcases stories, pictures, animations and artists' books created by my fellow classmates and I. You should see it if you're in town. Details here.
Red hair and hello Winter
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The internet loves reds right? I certainly do. This lady's hair changed colour pretty soon after I gave it to M , I think it may be green now. So we learn. Archival quality else the sun will claim it. Are you out there Lady M? Has it faded away completely? |
(It's a beautiful sunshine winter's day in the mother city)
Paper is You
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Paper is You , a group show I’m participating in opens tonight at Salon 91 in Kloof street. I’m thrilled to be joining such a talented bunch. It opens at 7:30pm and runs until the 25th of June.
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The collaborative piece each of us worked on: Elsabe Milandri, Colijn Strydom, Paul Senyol, Marlise Keith, Andrew Sutherland, Gabrielle Raaff and me.
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A detail from one of my works on show…
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A Wish This Big
Ingrid 's lovely storybook is a true Capetonian one - join us this Saturday 11am at The Book Lounge in Roeland street for the launch . I promise to bring some original illustrations along :)
A Wish This Big is published by Tafelberg and available at most Exclusive Books and Kalahari .
Ook beskikbaar in Afrikaans: Soos 'n wens, so groot
jungles & swimming pools
favourite subject matter.
A postcard of Max Ernst's La Joie de vivre 1936,
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
I paid this painting many visits when I lived in Edinburgh.
and...
another pool photograph taken just before my parents moved from their home of thirty years.
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