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TITLE "FIRST LAST"
SPECS
Framed size 96 cm x 66 cm
Oil on Art Board
Framed Weight 4,6kg
The woman in the portrait works a 12 hour night shift as a security guard. I painted her in the staff kitchen under florescent lighting at about 9pm one night. We had to be out of the way of cameras that check to see that the guards are not asleep. We had to work quickly, but that turned out not to be my biggest challenge. She couldn’t sit still - at all - she’d chuckle, chat, fix her clothes, look through the door then turn her head to the window, check her phone, stand up, stretch her legs. Which was a good thing for a guard on night shift, since she’d arrived at 6pm and would to be on duty til 6am the following morning, but was not conducive to a live portrait. I tried to capture a sense of the light changes over time in the painting, but the push and pull of the sky in pinks left me rendering it in the most contrasting terms - absorbing midnight blue and the harsh light that follows an African sunrise. I couldn’t complete the portrait with her in front of me, so for the few moments she was still I took a few photographs and packed up by board and paints. It took me another 4 months to complete the painting, and I would try to soak in a good look at her as I drove through the gate where she was on duty. She was wearing a pale blue uniform on the night, but she was bursting outside of herself and praising the Lord and so I dressed her in yellow. She is so gorgeous and the interior of her shack is covered with bright yellow and the outside with green. The First Last, The Last First is a saying of Jesus.
PRICE
R22 000
EXCLUDES SHIPPING
DETAILS
TITLE "INSIDE OUT"
SPECS
70 cm x 50 cm
Oil on Canvas
Weight 1,4 kg
A live portrait done of a seven year old girl who is fiercely determined and perceptive. I painted her while she stood for me. I had about 10 minutes to capture her essence and a little leeway while I captured her skin tone, features and fortitude. The background is restless and full of movement. She is a child, with the insight to know that things are not always as they seem, yet is not quite able to pinpoint what she is perceiving. She seeks to understand what is beyond the veneer of life. Inquisitive and impatient, she acts out the tension in a fearless, resolved pose. It is as though she is holding her ground and saying “I don’t know what it is yet, but I will soon enough.” The colours in the background are mature beyond the age of a seven year old, as is her intuition. The overall sense is of someone in a young physical ‘casing’ wishing to be taken seriously, which for me is quintessentially South African.
PRICE
R12 000
EXCLUDES SHIPPING
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SIZE A1 R999
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SIZE A3 R699
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