paintings by mark c waller

"Open your mind and let the pictures out."

Tshwane moods

Days and nights, 2022

What survives, 2022

Magaliesburg valley, 2022

All quiet, 2022

Sosha F East pastoral, 2022

Storm over Sosha F East, 2022

Last stop, 2022

Mellow and loaded, 2022

Storm in town, 2022

'This bitter earth', 2021

Five O'clock Madiba Street

Tshwane central, 2021

Rainy evening Tshwane, 2021

Rainy early evening Tshwane, 2021

Tipping point, 2021

Lemon light, 2021

Being here / not here, 2021

'I don't know shit about fuck', 2021

Gazed, 2021

A way out, 2021

The road taken, 2021

'our little life is rounded with a sleep', 2021

Winter's lease, 2021

Tonight, 2021

Dying of the light, 2021

Trauma never fades (remembering Winfred Rembert), 2021

All we do is forget, 2021

'Writ in water (JK)', 2021

The cries, 2021

'Peace comes dropping slow', 2021

"Our saddness in denial" 2021

Many thousands gone, 2021

Eroded, 2021

Reawakened, 2021

Somewhere out of here, 2021

Someway out of here, 2021

nothing comes from nothing, 2021

Only this moment, 2021

Convalesence, 2021

All is not right, 2021

City break, 2021

All things passing, 2021

Ending, 2021

Midnight or gone, 2021

Return, 2021

Dusk garden (revisited), 2021

This-sidedness, 2021

The years, 2021

Adjustment, 2021

Grief 4.3.21, 2021

Earthly, 2021

Nightshade, 2021

All too short, 2021

Long before, 2021

VU, 2021

Viriconium, 2021

"It was not a plague in the ordinary sense of the word. It was a kind of thinness, a transparency. Within it people aged quickly, or succumbed to debilitating illnesses - phthisis, influenza, galloping consumption. The very buildings fell apart and began to look unkempt, ill-kept. Businesses failed. All projects dragged out indefinitely and in the end came to nothing." M. John Harrison In Viriconium.

Vanishing, 2021

Fantasia, 2021

Underground, 2021

Leaving, 2021

An evening coming in, 2021

Early days, 2021

Dryads, 2021

Another new night, 2021

Odyssey, 2021

Down in space, 2021

Fade in, 2021

Hold, 2021

Last day, 2021

Sooner, 2021

I'm not there, 2021

Broken loose, 10 jan '21

Beyond, 2021

"I don't care if I'm here tomorrow", 2021.

Out there, 2021

If only, 2021

Today, 2021

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Gone, 2020

Tabasco peppers, 2020

Eternal sunlight, 2020

Greta, 2020

Night garden, 2020

ending, 2020

Overhead, 2020

Widening gyre, 2020

Night, 2019

After rain, 2019

Bougainvillea, 2019

Regenerate, 2019

Tshwane night, 2019

Tshwane spring, 2019

Far to go, 2019

How did we get to this? (tribute to #TheTotalShutdown movement), 2019

Tswaing crater, 2019

From Sosha F East, 2019

Across Joburg, 2019

Malamulele Section D - storm and stress, 2019

Soshanguve in the distance, 2019

Wessex, 2019

class & colour, 2019

Blue, 2019

Mabopane Highway Revisited, March 2019

Soshanguve F East 3 fightback

This is the last in a series of 3 I've done celebrating the struggles of people in Soshanguve block F East, a place where I used to live and where the fruits of liberation are still all too meagre.