new acrylic on canvas work

   

A IS FOR ANCESTORS
Acrylic on canvas, 122 x 88cm
SOLD

octopus mural

 A mural for a newly refurbished shop space in my little village.

new page: SKIN

I have added a new page to this blog, titled SKIN. Here you'll find some of my machine free tattoo work.  I use the ages-old method of tattooing by hand, 'poking' the ink under the skin dot by dot. Enjoy, and go to my Instagram page to view more work

workspace murals and wallpapers

 

private drawing classes - now open for bookings

 

tribal ideas and the dot work of the hand poke tattoo method

 

find more of my art

 For more art and info on my designs, illustrations, works for sale, custom tattoo creations and other happenings in Letsleepingdragons Studio please make sure to check in regularly with my Instagram and Facebook pages!

own every moment

May we one day return to the walls.

Roller ball & black marker on black card, A4.

Theme Me

Roller ball & black marker on black card

F is for Forgiveness

Pencil on paper, 30 x 21 cm

Prints for ZAR 459
Original SOLD 

Price incl. local delivery (South Africa)

L is for Laugh

Pencil on paper, 28 x 19 cm

Prints for ZAR 459
Original SOLD 

Price incl. local delivery (South Africa)

earth forest mural

Mural at Earth Forest, Chamberlain Square, Berea, East London

 

tattoo + massage

As of now letsleepingdragons is an art shop, massage therapy studio, and tattoo studio.

Please catch me on Instagram to view my work!

Piece: before & after 

... And this is Angie, our delightful massage humxn

work complete

Chintsa East Homework Centre

 

 

work complete

RAISE THE VIBRATION/HEAL THE NATION
Chintsa East

 

 

Please visit my WALL page for more detail.

work in progress - day 2

work in progress - day 1

sketch ups for a mural

my big tigger heart

Pen, pencil and koki on paper - SOLD

32.5 x 27.5cm framed

what is easter

A commission by a mall in East London to me and three other artists to paint their promotional eggs and speak of the beauty of the Eastern Cape at Easter time.

I set out to question the Safrican celebration of Easter, a European tradition observing the advent of Spring and its associated rituals of fertility, most famously symbolised by rabbits and eggs. I ask why it is that, on the opposite side of the world, where we're going into Autumn and seeing a 'dying off' of Summer harvests, we still choose to celebrate a tradition that speaks to a different natural environment and climate. I want to know where the African traditions are: what are the Autumn rituals of our people; are there any celebrations for the oncoming Winter such as the Europeans have in the tradition of Halloween, where the pumpkin is venerated as the last of the Summer fruits and the onset of Winter is celebrated with dressing up as ghouls and spirits? 

The answer came in the form of the old isiXhosa word for the month of April, 'uTshazimpunzi' which speaks of the colours we see in drying grasses and the duikers. This is 'The month of the withering pumpkins'.  It's a wonderful accident: we're actually having a pumpkin moment here in Southern Africa, an undercover Halloween of our own - only ours is masked in the tradition of Easter imported by European colonists.  I ask: are there others out there who believe we Africans have enough rich cultures of our own to revive and celebrate? Is it perhaps time to let go of cultures and ways of being that do not speak to our languages, our land?