Aasha, Watercolour and ink on paper. A portrait done of someone that one knows well should be easy to do. But the truth is that I have not found it easy at all. Every attempt seems to leavesomething out, as though the complexity of the individual being painted is only…
12.04.2020 Dance. Watercolor on paper, 2020. After a reasonably frustrating day when it seemed as though everything I was doing had no real sense of form, I finally went back to working with a fibre tipped pen. After that things seemed to come into focus again. How much of what…
In 2005, having earned some money working on mosaics at the New Metro Mall, I visited India. India had a profound effect on me. Not necessarily a spiritual effect but rather in the sense that I saw colours and people that seemed to move something deeply in my being. I also saw buildings that were simple and which seemed…
I was born in Morija, Lesotho to a French Missionary family on my Mother’s side and an Irish family on my Father’s side. I grew up watching my Mother paint. She painted predominantly in oil and watercolour, much as I do now. I also watched my great-uncle Georges Duby paint…
Thoughts on the making of the sunscreens. I was first approached by Lewis Levin about working on a maquette for the Constitutional Court while working on mosaics at the New Metro Mall. I was in a grandly optimistic frame of mind at the time but was still taken aback when…
I never really got Miro. I found his work to be too playful in his later years and too earnestly surreal in his earlier work. Until one day, suddenly, as though a screen fell away, I saw his work. Clearly. So, as I drew this and as I painted in…
