“I need to label my hearts,” I tweeted the other day. I meant typing up and printing out labels for my Seeing Life Feelingly exhibition at Odd Cafe, but it […]
How I started painting hearts
Yes, it’s unbelievably girly I know. But I like painting hearts. The first time I ever attempted a heart was after I got dumped by a post-divorce boyfriend. I was […]
Sharks for the win
I like painting sharks. Always have. So when the Sharks won tonight’s Super Rugby semi-final against the Stormers, it was a lovely excuse for me to tackle one of […]
My official exhibition video
My dear friend and diehard Stevie Nicks fan Malcolm Lennox has been an important part of my first exhibition. I’ve known him for nearly 20 years – ever since 1993 […]
#JoziTweetArt needs a good home
Two months ago I ran a campaign called #JoziTweetArt inviting people to tweet about Johannesburg. The idea was that I’d collect the tweets, write them into one of my works […]
The Red Light District
This new painting of the Hillbrow Tower, completed this evening, is unusual in that it’s the first time I’ve included a structure other than a building in my cityscapes. But […]
How and why I started painting cityscapes
The text in most of the cityscapes refers to roads, and there is a good reason for this. Johannesburg is a city of cars, and all of this art was […]
Money on the move: Johannesburg’s love affair with the car
An edited version of this piece appeared in the Sunday Times Lifestyle supplement in November 2011. “YES, we do have a conscience, and it tells us to get that car.” […]
On selling Panic to an Australian
Australia only features in one of the paintings on exhibition, but the ghost of it is everywhere. So it made perfect sense that yesterday a man should wander into the […]
Two new towers
The Tower of Babel is probably my most popular piece on exhibition and I could have sold it several times over. So I thought I’d explore the theme further, and […]
Thoughts on Panic Awareness Day
Today, July 10, is Panic Awareness Day. I realised that when I opened my little red Moleskine diary and saw that I’d written that in more than 6 months ago. […]
The magic of randomness and the strange connectedness of things
One of the most consistent sources of inspiration for my work as an artist, a writer and as a strategist is a blog called Brain Pickings. If you haven’t […]