I was born in the Karoo and grew up on a sheep farm. My favorite entertainment was to be alone in the veld, wandering around in the grass plains and climbing “koppietjies” . A dreamer by nature I could spend hours on end exploring and gathering various colors and textures of soil and rock.
In my hometown, Colesberg, I gained recognition for various art and craft projects from an early age.
I never really considered a career in art, and thus studied Electrical Engineering through the South African Air Force. It was during those Air Force years that the artist in me started to emerge. I became restless in my occupation and started to explore the world of art.
It was my dream to become a full time artist that led me on a new journey to pursue perfection in Portraiture. I was fascinated by the human face right from the start and started to gather information from any book I could lay my hand on. Commissions for portraits started on a very small scale, but as I completed one portrait after another I developed a feeling for the structure and character of the human face and figure.
Today I am an established artist, completing commissions on a much larger scale and in various mediums. I get commissions from the corporate world as well as private clients.
Besides portraiture I also do landscapes, seascapes and still life paintings and drawings. Some of my artworks can be found abroad in countries like Dubai, New Zealand, United States, Germany, Britain, Australia, Belgium, etc.
Another passion of mine is the urge to “sketch-diarise” everyday life around me. Travel sketching has become a daily exercise. Together with my regular commissions I also conduct “Art-s-Cape” workshops on the Cape Western Coast. These travel sketching break-away’s proofed to be very popular and life enriching.
Besides commissions and paintings I have a great love for teaching and training in art. I am passionate about art and I believe that every person with the desire to paint or draw has the ability to do so, locked up in them. I believe I have the gift to make people believe in themselves and to discover their own abilities to create great works of art.
