I am a multidisciplinary fine artist working primarily in traditional media—oil, acrylic, ink, pastel, and intaglio printmaking, as well as sculptural practices in paper, plaster, and clay. My work spans canvas, board, and paper, exploring subjects from landscapes and still life to animals, portraiture, and the human figure.

My landscapes are strongly rooted in the agrarian environments of the Overberg region and the Scottish Highlands. These two geographically distinct areas share visual and emotional affinities: vast skies, dappled light and clouds , wind-blown trees, mountain ranges, open plains, and bodies of water—whether lochs, dams, or sea. My work often includes the rustic elements of Cape and Croft vernacular architecture, as well as the animals and flora—fynbos and bracken—that form part of a life intertwined with the land.

Still life offers a more personal, reflective quality in my work. Series such as Entropy explore  nostalgia, decay, and personal history through compositions of weathered household objects, farm relics, broken china, old toys, bones, and other ephemera. These assemblages evoke the passage of time and the resonance of forgotten things.

As a lifelong animal lover, the beasties on my farm—cats, chickens, geese, cows, donkeys—and wildlife frequently appear as subjects. Their presence is both literal and symbolic, offering a continual source of inspiration and emotional connection.

Portraiture and figurative work explore themes of identity and personal family history as seen in the series White Privilege.  Movement and bodily presence is combined with classical sculpture is the drawings Motion and Stasis. These works blend realism with conceptual inquiry, while drawing on the personal and historical.

In sculptural works, I am especially drawn to the formal and painterly qualities of paper sculpture. This material comes alive in my Animale series of  on 17th and 18th century  costumed animals,  and ballet figures inspired by the Ballet Russe, staged in a sculptural paper theatre, merging whimsy with historical reference.

Recent work includes Grand Tour Curiosities, a series of box frames inspired by 18th- and 19th-century European collecting traditions. These pieces feature hand-cast plaster intaglios of cameos, coins, insects, shells, coral, beetles, butterflies and architectural decorative mouldings, displayed in shadow boxes lined with marbled and painted papers reminiscent of antique book-boxes, celebrating the combination of classical antiquity, travel and curiosity collections

Founder member of the Baardskeerdersbos Art Route, exhibiting on the art route from its inception in 2008, with 20 Solo Exhibitions on the Art Route.

Exhibits at the Stables Studio & Gallery on Assegaai Bosch Farm and also sells work online from this web site and Instagram.

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"Art, in its highest expression, explains our existence to us, both the particularities of the artist's own time and the universals of all time, or at least human history. It transcends transience and therefore reconciles us to the most fundamental condition of our existence. In the history of art, unlike the history of science, what comes after is not necessarily better than what came before." Theodore Dalrymple (2001)