How lucky do I feel? One of my good friends, Cath Paynter, an artist/painter, sent this painting as a Christmas gift.
Ever since I saw it on her site a month ago I’ve been plotting on how I’d get it before it was sold. Unfortunately she told me it had been a week or two thereafter. Oh well…
So imagine my surprise when I opened the package from Postnet to find the quirky leopard painting…
Thanks Cath, you’re the best.
Some days you realise you have been given a gift, a message, directions for a new destination… when a friend mentioned Cyril Coetzee to me when I enquired if she knew of any art teachers in my area (Rivonia Jhb), I had never heard of Cyril Coetzee. On researching him on the net, I was simply blown away by his works - especially his narrative oil paintings.
“Geometry, in general and repeat patterns specifically, (Escher, Alhambra, Nature) have always dominated my creative process. When a friend introduced me to Penrose’s aperiodic tiling seven years ago, I became interested in their visual implications and I have been obsessed by them ever since. The grid I use was constructed with unsophisticated equipment to give it a hand-made, rather than computer-generated look, while strictly adhering to the mathematics of aperiodicity.”
I first saw one of her intricate porcelain plates in a book (Ultimate Guide to Local Design) that I bought a while ago and was captivated by the detail.
www.christinabryer.com or email her at christinabryer@telkomsa.net
Contact Peter at pmthombeni.ceramics@yahoo.co.uk; Cell: 072 955-1755. His studio is in Troyeville.
He does tea sets, wood carvings, murals, panels, portraits, sculptures and more.
