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MEET LAURIANA 🌸

I met Laurie at an art exhibition in Sea Point last year and we just clicked. She is a professional artist who recently moved to Cape Town from KZN.

At the time I had already asked the various artists who would be painting the with me and all 12 portraits were spoken for… but Then, earlier this year, due to unforeseen health problems one of the artist could not paint her portrait so I immediately contacted Laurie to ask if she wanted to paint Irma - and she said YES! 🎉

I just want to honour her for her willingness to be part of a project she knew nothing about, with people she never met, to support a beautiful cause where we honour and celebrate ordinary extraordinary women for just being who they are, where they are 🌸

Thank you for following this journey with us and supporting us in this new season of growth 🌿

This is how this one turned out.

It’s not a pretty picture.

And most of you may not like it.

Plus it probably perfectly ruins the look of my story’s grid…

…but that’s okay…

…it’s a work of expression…

…my emotional reaction to the world around me…inspired by the “scarred earth” scene you’ll find in the last pic that I photographed whilst out hiking the other day…

…and that’s what make me come alive as an artist!

Sometimes the struggle is real and you just have to reach for some spray paint! 🤣

This week’s progress…
…always an adventure in my studio and an invitation to spend time with my Maker’s presence 🫶

•Finding Beauty
•Inspiring Hope

…this is me…

Thank you for joining me on this journey!

Details…

Today’s progress…and loving my new jumbo-sized oil bars from …sourced with the help of from the fabulously amazing Red Pencil Art Shop in St Petersburg. Thanks Oxana!

Friday’s favourites…which one do you like the best?

A couple of my favourites…

“Everyone needs a place to retreat; a spot where the world grows quiet enough for the soul to speak.”
- Angie Wieland-Crosby

This one’s still very much a work in progress, but I’m gonna be out the country for a bit, so you won’t see any updates on my studio progress for the next little while…in the meantime, wishing you all beautiful pockets of quietness where your souls are refreshed, restored and renewed!

Today’s progress…scroll to see the previous layers!

“Create with the heart; build with the mind.” – Criss Jami

Relishing being in my happy place…
…every image I paint tells a story and is a reminder to me of the beauty that is to be found in this world, despite its brokenness and pain…

Making progress by playing…
I’m sure that’s allowed? 😆

A new day, a new decade (I turned 50 on Saturday…yeeha!!), and new ideas…

Freshly and beautifully framed (thank you ) and safely delivered to its new home…always such a lovely feeling…hurrah!

Now sold!

“Fynbos & Veld”
45 x 70cm
Oil on 300g Gesso’d Paper

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Details…

Euphorbia Botanicals 1 & 2
Oil on canvas
60cm diameter

On my easel today…keeping it fresh and fun and not overthinking…

Details…

Dahlia Study I
Oil on canvas
60cm diameter

Thank you for the inspiration…your dahlias are the most beautiful I’ve ever seen!

Dahlias from Adene’s Farm Flowers at the Oranjezicht Market…how incredible are these Dahlia blooms?!

Today’s progress…

Happy Monday, everyone!

Easing into the weekend with some bright splashes of colour…

…and after a taste of wintry weather last week in St Petersburg, trying to hold onto the last remaining remnants of a glorious Summer in the Southern Hemisphere 🌸🌸

Dahlias in progress
Oils on canvas
60cm diameter

A couple of recent out-of-office work sesh sketch sessions…

Friday feels…

…from messy puddles of paint at the beginning of the week…to something I feel half happy with!

Yay for the weekend 😄

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” Michael John Bobak

This is what playtime looked like in my studio today …

“You can be cautious or you can be creative, but there’s no such thing as a cautious creative.” – George Lois

Art director and designer turned author, George Lois is most famous for designing almost 100 iconic magazine covers for Esquire between 1962 and 1973.
In one of his most famous quotes about creativity of all time, Lois reminds us that we must get messy and break some rules when exerting creative effort.

Lois goes so far as to say that caution isn’t an aspect of creativity.
When faced with a conflict of ideas, throw caution to the wind and do something out of the ordinary.

I rather like that…thanks to:
https://www.linearity.io/blog/creativity-quotes/

That feeling of being completely engulfed and dwarfed by the majesty of the mountains in God’s creation…

“All art should inspire and evoke emotion. Art should be something you can actually feel.”
(Du Rubeis)