undersea mural at Crawford's Beach Lodge

This in the kiddies' playroom at Crawford's Beach Lodge, Chintsa East

 

soon to exhibit:

This December I will be showing a few works from 2017 at Emerald Vale Brewery, Cintsa East, with three other lovely local artists.

film evenings at The Studio - Friday nights

My studio Letsleepingdragons is housed within the 6 x 6 sq. metre walls of The Hearth of Cintsa Studio Gallery + Project Space in Chintsa East.  This is where I do most of my own art work, and I co-curate The Hearth as a 'gallery' and use the space as a classroom to teach drawing. The space is also host to a number of public events such as live music and, most popularly, our Festive Friday Film Evenings.

Visit the Film page on the website to view the film screenings for this coming season and join us if you can for some great art and other alternative, non-mainstream film!

  

new paintings

Mandala project.  Four abstract backgrounds with mandalas based on the number six layered over the top.  Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 40cm - SOLD

cow skull

Sundays at the studio

lyra

An illustration I just ink penned for Harry Owen's poem 'Lyra', with details of the poem worked into the stars. Pen on paper, A3

wall piece

Our new local barbershop invited me to paint their logo and text on their wall.  Piece designed by one of my drawing students and I tweaked it a bit...

tattoo design

A water crystal tattoo design, and the tattoo inked by Diamond D:

awake. aware. alive

I wanted to see what a dark text on a build up of white paint background would look like, in answer to the previous large canvas (see next blog post).  This was a make up of elements I played with in answer to the question 'What do I truly desire?'.

AWAKE. AWARE. ALIVE
- acrylic on canvas, 122 x 89cm - R3,200

studio view

new work: combination of 'The proper crossing of lines' and 'The slowing down of time' glyphs

This acrylic on canvas piece is a combination of the glyphs seen on the fish eagle and kudu paintings, built up in layers of reds, with matt and gloss blacks on top: lots of mind maths finished off with peace and harmony found in the final sigil.  Thank you Jean-Michel Basquiat for the permission.

THE PROPER CROSSING OF LINES & THE SLOWING DOWN OF TIME
acrylic on canvas, 126 x 101cm - R3,200

logo design

A re-design of a logo used by a local volunteer veterinary organisation

logo design

A re-design of an old yoga brand

new works/old works

I've taken out a few choice drawings from my sketchbooks and given them a dust up and some new frames.  These are all on display and for sale at The Hearth of Cintsa Studio Gallery & Project Space:

logo design

A logo design for a family trust run by four brothers, using a Celtic cross and a sun symbol:

work in progress

Pen on paper drawing 76 x 64 cm

the proper crossing of lines and the slowing down of time

New work: kudu male and fish eagle female, acrylic on canvas, 84 x 60 cm each - both SOLD 

new works in progress

Working with some sketches of sigils, these are turning out: 1 x large canvas of reds & 2 x smaller Kudu and Fish Eagle in acrylic