new Paris-inspired drawings featuring ye olde Skulls & Roses

 In September and October I made a trip to Paris. It changed something in me. I had always looked upon the symbols of skulls and roses as below me, somehow. As hack machine tattoo sailor and prisoner emblems. But these symbols are way older than that. Paris inspired me to start playing with them, and I've fallen in Love.

Chintsa East Beach Entrance Mural touch up & new mural

In 2014 I completed a series of murals at our local beach entrance - see the original blog post 

This year I solicited funding from my community to re-paint the main facing wall with a Kolam designed by Hema Kannan of The Lotus Shakti, including the original monkeys from the previous mural playing with a bottle of bubbles and a haiku that I wrote for a friend. I also touched up one of the inner walls with new pinks and oranges...

Touch up on inner wall

mural commission: superheroes for the boys!

Black Panther and Spiderman 'positive role models for the Boys' mural painted on Boys' Hostel at African Angels Independent School, Chintsa

 

new work: aurora pollutionis londinium orientis

EAST LONDON LIGHT POLLUTION - acrylic on superwood, 30 x 30 cm - ZAR1,350; shipping price calculated upon purchase

ASCENT - acrylic on canvas, 24.5 x 30cm, SOLD

new work: world tree in heiros gamos symbol

 

FOR THE SOUL OF THE WORLD - acrylic on canvas, 122 x 88cm - ZAR18,000

work in progress: studio view

Busy with this big girl... stay tuned...

new work: malachite sunbird pair

REMEMBER THE LITTLE ONES Nectarinia famosa/Malachite sunbird pair 
- acrylic on wood, 28 x 28cm - SOLD 

 

new work: freshening up and getting back to play

MIXTAPE - Ink & pencil on cream vellum, 16.3 x 12.1 cm SOLD

new work: studio view

This is 'PRONOIA' - photographed upon completion in my studio. As I painted this I realised I was drawing a variation of a sigil that dropped in on my satellite feelers in 2022 (see B&W sketch below) which I drew to symbolise how we are born out of and into Love and Original Beauty (and not 'original sin'). I had done another version of this symbol in a painting in 2023.

PRONOIA - a State of Mind where the Universe & the World conspire in One's Favour - acrylic & mixed media on canvas, 122 x 45cm - ZAR6,000

detail:

new work: mandala for being-ness

 BASIC GOODNESS - acrylic on board, 103 x 72cm framed - ZAR6,000

new work: all the allness, everywhere, at once

UBIQUITY - acrylic on canvas, 45 x 35 cm - ZAR6,400 

new work: sold in studio

ASCENDANT - acrylic on canvas, 45.5 x 36 cm - SOLD

new work: protection sigil

REALITY HARSHNESS DEFENDER - acrylic on canvas, 59 x 41.5 cm - ZAR6,000

 

new work: mandala for motherhood

MOTHER - acrylic on canvas, 60.5 x 45 cm - ZAR7,400 

Painted during the Taurus Super Full Moon mid-November this Year to focus on healing the Mother Wound, embodying The Great Mother, anything personal regarding the Mother Connection and the Maternal Line, both in this Life and in the World.

new work: magic flight of the bee

 THE WAY TO AVALON - acrylic & pencil, 30 x 30 cm 

new work: bee in the field

 CONTACT - acrylic & mixed media on board, 99 x 39.5 cm framed - SOLD

detail

new work - black bear, timberwolf, jaguar

FOR THE FORESTS - acrylic & mixed media on canvas, 100 x 40cm - ZAR11,000

new work: pangolin

GETTING BETTER AT FEELING - acrylic on superwood box mount, 60 x 20cm - ZAR3,200