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This is a strictly experimental space. I share because it might be instructive and because this part of the work excites me. Some of these works might get finished and sold before I remove them from this collection. Feel free to ask if you are curious about anything you see. Most of the photos have subtitles for easy reference
Paintings drying on the wall in my very uncomfortable Camps Bay studio, shortly before the National Portrait Awards
My Easel wall in Rondebosch, Right before the Cape Town International Art Fair in 2018
I was still adding the tiny dogs to this painting of "dog roses"
This commissioned piece was a reproduction of a smaller painting that I completed a year earlier
A storage corner of my Rondebosch studio circa 2017-ish - with paintings and sculptures in progress.
Nora with Ibis Wing Fan started out with a chiaroscuro background, the pattern came much later.
My easel wall in 2018 with commission and gallery works in progress and quite a lot of ad-hoc storage, which I still love having under my easel.
A night time shot of this painting-in-progress of my Jiu Jitsu coach. I have no idea where this painting has gone now.
Shujaa Mzuri was a painting with many, many lives. This photo marked a half-way point.
I had just started painting in the American yucca flowers but hadn't yet added colour or the background.
Some paintings never get finished. I painted something else over this acrylic under-painting shortly afterwards.
The underpainting for "Jane Dressed Up
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Strong Colour and Structural Grey
Strong Colour and Structural Grey
Colour theory is central to painting, even more than materials science or even basic polymers. Colour is something an artis can control...mostly.
I love greys and browns. They're the foundation of composition, and tonality, essentially, is structure. Line is also inescapable, since by losing and finding an edge, we gain perspective and move past the flat surface of the canvas.
All that aside, colour is frequently where I find the most joy. Pure cadmium is as beautiful as it is dangerous, transparent glazes, layered just so, make a flat painting into a hologram. And painting all that has the dopamine-driven addictive quality that makes this work the only thing I can't seem to quit.
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