About

Hello, I’m Simone — an artist-researcher, mother, and multidisciplinary fine artist based on the Garden Route, South Africa.

My work is shaped by faith, motherhood, nature, and contemplative creative practice. Working across printmaking, film, installation, and photography, I create artworks that invite slower, more attentive ways of seeing, feeling, and being.

Since childhood, art and music have helped me process emotion and transform lived experience into something meaningful, restorative, and hopeful. This remains central to my practice today. I believe creativity is a God-given part of being human — something many of us are not lacking, but learning to remember.

I am currently completing a PhD in Fine Art titled Tranquility: Mindfulness and mindwandering in, and as, creative practice. The project explores how creative practice can help us return to attention in a world shaped by speed, distraction, and overstimulation.

Alongside this work, I am developing Blue Lotus Studio — a home-based creative space where family life, faith, nature, printmaking, and botanical processes meet. I grow and gather many of the flowers I work with, allowing them to become both material and symbol within my practice.

My signature offering is fine art printmaking, with limited-edition releases and nature-rooted floral works. New prints and studio updates will be shared here as the collection continues to unfold.