Birch Tree

Birch Tree
16*20"
Oil on Canvas (Framed)

Sunflowers: Study

11*14"
Oil
Painting Knife on Canvas
NFS

Landscape Abstract

Landscape Abstract
16*20"
$150

 Who said an artist can't interpret the object? Who said colors  have to be realistic? This landscape painting is about the paint, the push and pull of warm vs cold colors and texture. Inspired by Henry Matisse a painter of the Fauvist Group in the early 1900's.  

Here is a description of Matisse's painting style in the Open window, Collioure 

 Matisse
Open Window, Collioure
1905


" In Open Widow, Collioure behind the free, spontaneous expression, one feels the invisible organic reality of nature, balanced against the demands of pictorial science"

Protea

Protea
11*14"
Oil on Canvas
$100 

The Protea is the National flower of South Africa. Here is a little extract from Wikipedia:

 

Etymology

The genus Protea was named in 1735 by Carl Linnaeus after the Greek god Proteus, who could change his form at will, because proteas have such a wide variety of forms.

 

Taxonomy

The Proteaceae family to which proteas belong is an ancient one. Its ancestors grew in Gondwanaland, 300 million years ago. Proteaceae is divided into two subfamilies: the Proteoideae, best represented in southern Africa, and the Grevilleoideae, concentrated in Australia and South America and the other smaller segments of Gondwanaland that are now part of eastern Asia. Africa shares only one genus with Madagascar, whereas South America and Australia share many common genera — this indicates they separated from Africa before they separated from each other.

 

Distribution

Most protea occur south of the Limpopo River. However, Protea kilimanjaro is found in the chaparral zone of Mount Kenya National Park. 92% of the species occur only in the Cape Floristic Region, a narrow belt of mountainous coastal land from Clanwilliam to Grahamstown, South Africa. The extraordinary richness and diversity of species characteristic of the Cape Flora is thought to be caused in part by the diverse landscape where populations can become isolated from each other and in time develop into separate species.

Rose Hip Study.

Oil on Canvas
18*24"
$240 (Sold)

This a rose hip of the Alberta Wild Rose, the picture I used as reference was taken in the fall after the hips have dried out and became all wrinkly. Did you know that you can eat them and also the leaves of the Wild Rose itself?
Here is a picture of a Alberta Wild rose.

In die Karoo: Sleutelfontein II

16*20"
Oil On canvas
Sold

Here is the second in the "Karoo Series" I really like the landscape of the Karoo. My intention is not to make a realistic representation of the landscape because then I could just take a picture with my camera and be done with it. But instead it is an interpretation which involves layering the paint, playing with textures and the push and pull of warm and cold colors.

Black and White Photography

King Protea: The National Flower of South Africa

8*10" Print on Silver Gelatin Paper

For sale for $20.

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Little Switzerland in the Drakensberge

8*10" Print on Silver Gelatin Paper

For sale for $20  

These prints are printed by hand from a 35mm negative. Yes, Old School. There is something mysterious about waiting for a print to appear in the developer, and then to patiently wait for the Stop Bath and Fixer before you can take it out in the light .... and really look at it. I can still smell the smells of a darkroom when I close my eyes.