The artist spends a good deal of his time wondering what has happened to people and why they are not looking at Nature the way it really is. Climbing into the hills high above a small town gives one time to reflect. The challenge of moving across natural terrain produces Read more…
Dreamboat is the second in a series of similarly coloured seascapes. Inspired by the colour impressions the artist experienced as a younger man living near the Knysna lagoon in the Western cape province of South Africa, the painting is a fantasy about sailing off into the blue. An escape from Read more…
Summer Wish is an expression of love for the mountain ‘Hangklip’ painted by South African artist Jeremy Van der Want in oil paint on a 60 by 40 cm canvas. Painted in 2021 during the global pandemic during which the artist sheltered in Komani, or Queenstown as a guest of Read more…
The old stone circles in Mpumalanga are similar to the ones I explored around Johannesburg thirty years ago. Interesting. Not ancient. Stone houses keep the day’s heat and radiate it through the homestead during the night. Making them comfortable spaces. During the heat of the day, cool shelter is also Read more…
A painted wall, a mural artwork, can be a game changer for your space. Properly executed artwork can take a restaurant or a home or even an office space into a higher plane. Impress visitors, create the ambiance you want, delight children with professionally applied artwork on your walls. Children’s Read more…
The Lycaon Pictus, or African Wild Dog, is a subject matter that the artist has infused with his own psychology and tension surrounding the concept of the pack. It is common for children who encounter adverse conditions to retreat into a dreamworld of imaginary friends. My painting is all set Read more…
The meaning of art. Artifice. The human making power that enables self expression and a complex dialogue between mind and material, self and other. The eternal, pretentious, burning, intolerable question. What is the meaning of life, of art. Life the Universe and EVERYTHING, as Douglas Adams had it. What is Read more…
Like many I became aware of the seemingly inevitable decline of the natural world of creatures, plants and unspoilt planet Earth at a young age. It was a preoccupation of my very earliest thoughts. The houses built on the hill above where we lived looked to me like a tartar Read more…
