52 Artworks - A Year in Nature

The stream had been silent for many months, a quiet place to sit and contemplate life as the waxbills fluttered and dragonflies buzzed from reed to reed, the calm water finding a natural meandering route down the valley and into the sea, bisecting a world of not enough time and looming deadlines, th...

For me, one of the interesting aspects of the 52Artworks - A Year in Nature journey is to observe how my perspectives change, and how, as an artist, I find new things to say. This week's painting, #44 Otter is a good example, for, instead of speaking about the landscape and habitat of the otter as I...

After a couple of weeks completing and casting the little rhino, a trip into the Cederberg gave me an opportunity to reflect on the 52 artworks journey so far, and to prepare for the final ten artworks. This week's painting of two woodpeckers came out of this trip, and marks the beginning of the cou...

The last week has been a busy one, preparing the 'Mapungubwe Revisited' sculpture for casting, a fascinating process using the lost-wax method which has changed very little over thousands of years. I have posted a series of photographs taken during the week detailing the main stages of production, g...

Very occasionally along the artist's journey a piece is created that seems to resonate with many people, and Mapungubwe Revisited seems to be one of those times. A sculpture that brings together a diverse range of thoughts and narratives, and an opportunity to not only raise funds for rhino conserva...

Living in the richest plant kingdom in all the world has its obvious benefits, but often overlooked are its invitations to engage more consciously, to see the detail within the larger context, to remember that each plant is a unique expression of a diversity of factors that have not only enabled gro...