Early last week, I read about the dead birds washing up on the beach at Mallacoota, one of the towns ravaged by Australia’s terrifying bushfires. I was struck by a […]
Category: Wildlife
The brave little lion
Every now and then, one of the stories in the avalanche of bad news gets to me. It was like that with Pinky Mosiane, the murdered toddlers in Diepsloot, and […]
The Endangered Series
Most of Africa’s wildlife is under threat in some form or another. Having spent a lot of time in the bush since before I can remember, this is a cause […]
A portrait of an uncommon duiker
This is Taj, a much-loved common duiker. Common duikers are, well, common. According to Smithers’ Mammals of Southern Africa, the Common Duiker, Sylvicapra grimmia (Linnaeus, 1758) ‘avoids predators by lying […]
The Pangolin
Let me curl up against the world, where nobody can hurt me.
I will not be afraid of the dark
This is the first of a new series which I’ll be launching in time for 16 Days of Activism on Violence Against Women and Children (this is what I did […]
Buffalo skull
This is a sketch for a larger work. Sitting in the bush, I noticed the buffalo skull on the wall – it’s one I’ve painted in the past – and […]
A new rhino to help keep the real ones in safe hands
Today I was asked to donate a rhino painting to a golf day dinner in aid of the SAB-Boucher non-profit company which is raising funds for the DNA profiling of […]
The pink rhino
My Nguni cattle paintings are inspired in part by the work of Andy Warhol. The other day my aunt told me she wanted a painting of a pink rhino, and […]
The White Rhino
This is another extension of the Zoo City series inspired by the book by Lauren Beukes. I like the idea of the rhino emerging from the dark rather than placing […]