ZELDA MOSTERT

TITLE: PIZZA & WINE STREET
MEDIUM : OIL ON CANVAS
 SIZE : 770 X 790

TITLE : POPPIE
MEDIUM : OIL ON CANVAS
SIZE : 700 X 600 


ABOUT THE ARTIST:

MY NAME IS ZELDA MOSTERT AND I HAVE NOW BEEN A FULL TIME FINE ARTIST FOR 4 YEARS  . I AM ALSO A SELF-TAUGHT ARTIST AND ALTHOUGH I LOVE WORKING IN OILS, I ALSO MAKE USE OF OTHER MEDIUMS WHEN I DO COMMISSION WORK. I HAVE ALSO ATTENDED SOME WORKSHOPS BUT ON A LOW SCALE MY WORK IS MOSTLY SELF-TAUGHT.

MY SPECIALTY IS VINTAGE AND STREET SCENES, BUT I DO WHAT EVER IS GIVEN AND ASK OF ME TO DO. I MAKE USE OF MANY COLORS AS I LOVE THE WAY COLORS MAKES THE SCENE AS A WHOLE

JIMMY ABBOTT

TITLE : BOXING
SIZE : 300 X 220
MEDIUM : OIL ON CANVAS

ARTIST : 1ST OIL PAINTING BY BIG JIM

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Jimmy Abbott, one of the most feared people to roam the streets of Gauteng,   demolishing every single Heavy Weight boxer in the Country, including Kallie Knoetze, ( above on the photo held in Niki'S hand ) a contender for the World Heavy weight in 2 rounds, then becoming the most respected Preacher of the Word of God, also put his hand to an Art Work and here is his 1 st attempt.

YOLANDA VAN HEERDEN KUUN

OIL ON CANVAS

 TITLE : ROSE
MEDIUM: OIL ON CANVAS

COMMENTS : Robbers entered the house of this Artist at 1 am in the morning 2013, and this painting was in the passage way and as they walked down the passage, they suddenly saw this painting mistaken it for a person , thats how real it looks, and shot it. In the pictures that follow the entry of the bullet can be seen. They then sped off.

GERT ESTERHUYSE

TITLE : NAMIBIAN LANDSCAPE
MEDIUM : OIL ON CANVAS
SIZE : 860 X 480

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
 "I was born on a farm near Keetmans hoop where I grew up. During my school years I never had any art training, but because of my love for nature, trees and mountains inspired me to draw landscapes on any available surface. At the age of about 40 I got some oil paints and a pallet knife from a friend. About 3 years later while alone at home with nothing to do, I took out the my paint and start experimenting. The only printable surface I could found was a plastic custard jar. My first ever oil painting was about to be made. With the pallet knife and black paint I started to paint a landscape with mountains and trees on the white jar. Very impressed with my art work, I went the next morning to buy some more paint and my first brushes. As a beginner without any training what so ever, it wasn't easy but I think I did well. I commit myself not to make any painting more than once. There will always be only the original painting in circulation"

CATRYN ART

TITLE : FRUIT AND VEGGIES
MEDIUM: ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
SIZE : A 3
ABOUT THE ARTIST

 Ek was van kleintyd af lief vir teken em verf..deur my skooljare? Ek kon toe nie my droom verwesenlik om skone kunste by Rhodes te gaan studeer nie. Het na ek getroud is my kinders versorg en groot gemaak en net nou en dan iets geteken. Ek het my wel besig gehou met handgemaakde juwele..nog voor al die Beadshops oopgemaak het..was nogal moeilik om al die benodigdhede te kry..(1987)..toe my laaste kind in 1991 in st 9 tuis kom eendag met die boodskap "die Here gaan ma se talente weg vat as ma dit nie gebruik" en ek is volgende jaar uit die huis...wat gaan ma dan doen? Toe het ek maar gaan goed aanskaf en weer begin..eers net waterverf..waarvoor ek by Carletonville se kunste fees..n meriete..3 goud en n silver vir my inskrywings gekry het asook die Wisseltrofee. (Vriendin het dit ingeskryf ) ..van toe af het ek met verskeie media gespeel en geoefen..boeke oor tegnieke gelees..nageslaan op internet..en vir n paar maande by Doxo Deo in Harties saam Marinda Botha hulle gaam skilder en leer. Toe verhuis hulle NZ toe. Niki ek het nog nooit n uitstalling gehou. Mense het wel al van my goed gekoop. Ek het eers my goed Lena Trichardt geteken toe Helena..toe probeer ek dit na n gallery tussen Krugersdorp en Ramdfontein vat toe se hy my handtekening moet so wees dat mense dit dadelik herken..toe besluit ek op n afkorting van my tweede naam. So dis min of meer wie ek is..Jou oulike vertalende vriend en jy kan maar uithaal verkort en doen soos jul dink. My " grammer" is nie so goed...en baie dankie.

DIANA VENTER RHEEDER

TITLE : FARM BEAUTY
MEDIUM : OIL ON CANVAS

RIEKI ESTERHUYSE

TITLE : MUSIC OF THE HEART
OIL ON CANVAS
SIZE : 900 X 700

TITLE : YOU CAPTURE MY HEART
MEDIUM : OIL ON CANVAS
SIZE :  600 X 450

ABOUT THE ARTIST :

My name is Rieki Esterhuyse and I was born on the 5th of March 1956 in a small town in Namibia, called Usakos. When I was about 3 years old, we moved to South Africa to a little town called Naboomspruit where I grew up till I left school and got married. I never study art or had any art lessons except for those during my school years at school. I always loved to sketch and could sit for hours with a pencil and paper losing myself in these sketches. After a marriage of 16 years and raised three beautiful children almost on my own, I got divorce and never thought of sketching again. For many years I tried to calmed the passion for art with anything else, like leatherwork and jewelry making. It was about four years ago while watching my new husband Gert Esterhuyse for six years now, while he was busy painting, that I felt this longing in my heart to do what he is doing. I started with art classes and still love every minute of it.

REYNEL KRUGER

TITLE : BIRDS
OIL ON CANVAS

LIANI FOWLER

TITLE : KING OF THE OCEANS
MEDIUM : PENCILS ON DRAWING PAPER
SIZE : 600 X 420


 TITLE : WATER PRECIOUS
MEDIUM : PENCIL
SIZE : A4

OLIVIA SAAYMAN

TITLE : COSMOS BEAUTY
MEDIUM : OIL ON BLOCKED CANVAS
SIZE : 300 X 210
 
DETAIL. OLIVIA IS THE YOUNGEST ENTRANT ON THIS BLOG ---8 YEARS OLD.

NATHAN SAAYMAN

TITLE : SUNFLOWER BEAUTY 
MEDIUM : OIL ON BLOCKED CANVAS
SIZE: 300 X 210

MARA VAN ZYL

MEDIUM : ACRYL ON STRETCHED CANVAS.
SIZE : 760 X 59

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
:
 I AM A 63 YEAR OLD LADY. IS PAINTING FOR THE LAST EIGHT YEARS. I HAVE TAKEN CLASS AT ANETTE FELL FOR THREE YEARS AND ALSO A WEEK CLASS AT IRENA COETSEE AND IS FOR THE LAST FOUR YEARS WITH BRAAM COETSEE. I WORK IN BOTH ACRYLIC AND OIL BUT OIL IS THE MEDIUM OF PREFERENCE. I LOVE TO PAINT LANDSCAPES ESPECIALLY THE KAROO AND NAMIBIA. AS I CHILD I USE TO GO OFF WANDERING IN THE VELD AND I THINK MY LOVE FOR PAINTING LANDSCAPES WAS BORN THERE. YOU WILL FIND EITHER A MOUNTAIN OR A GROUP OFV ROCKS IN ALL MY PAINTINGS. IN A WAY IS PAINTING A LANDSCAPE MY WAY OF HONORING MY CREATOR. I HAVE DONE A FEW PAINTINGS OF ANIMALS LIKE A GROUP OF ELEPHANTS, A LIONESS AND A BLOU-WILDEBEEST ON TREK BUT AFTER ONE ANIMAL PAINTING MY FINGERS ITCHED TO DO A LANDSCAPES.

WENDY MACKINNON

GLAZED PAINT ON CERAMIC

LAURA SAAYMAN

PORTRAIT : LAURA
MEDIUM: PENCILS ON 140GSM DRAWING PAPER
A 3 SIZE

ANNETTE BRUNE ABBOTT

OIL ON CANVAS


ABOUT THE ARTIST

My name is Annette Abbott. I was born in Pretoria, lived in Dullstroom for 22 years, from where my love for nature and photography originated. I am currently living in Heidelberg (Gauteng), South Africa. I am a part-time artist and I am in full-time evangelistic ministry with my husband. Therefore many of my paintings have a prophetic message.
I’ve taken up art classes two and a half years ago, when I started painting and are still experimenting with new techniques. My main medium is oil on canvas.
I love to paint landscapes and animals, although I almost paint any theme or picture. I love to take my own photographs, from where my paintings originate from. I also take on challenges, and have done a couple of commissions.
Some of my paintings have traveled abroad, as far as Canada AND the Netherlands 

ANNETTE BRUNE ABBOTT

PORTRAIT
OIL ON CANVAS

SAMANTHA MARIAH

TITLE : THOUGHTS IN A BOTTLE
MEDIUM: OIL ON CANVAS
SIZE : 300 X 210

TITLE: PORTRAIT SAMANTHA
MEDIUM: PENCILS
SIZE : A3

YURISHA JENINE NAIDOO

TITLE : COLORFUL THOUGHTS
MEDIUM : OIL ON CANVAS
SIZE : 300 X 210

ANNA-MARE BUYS

TITLE:  Home Solo of the soul Oil Painting

MEDIUM: Oil on stretched canvas 

SIZE: 300x200x40mm Stretched Canvas

JOHANETTE VAN DEVENTER

TITLE : Dancing light Duality of life, light within darkness

MEDIUM: Oil Painting 

SIZE : 710x560x40mm Stetched Canvas

TITLE :  Solo of the soul Oil Painting

MEDIUM : Oil on canvas 

SIZE : 300x200x40mm Stretched Canvas

 Johanette van Deventer Artist part of the Art Elite Movement West Coast South Africa

HANNELE VILJOEN

Artwork Name:  Masquerade

Unframed Size:  500 x 700mm

Framed Size:

Medium:  Oil & Impasto on stretched canvas

Technique Inspired by:  Leonid Aftremov

Artistic Message:

Here is the life you have tried to throw away. Here is your second chance. Here is the destiny you have tried to shake off by inventing a hundred false roles, a hundred false identities for yourself. It will look at first like disaster, but is really good fortune in disguise, since fate too knows how to follow your evasions through a hundred forms of its own. Now you will become at last the one you intended to be.

 

COURTNEY MACKINNON

TITLE : FLOWER POWER
MEDIUM: OIL ON BLOCKED CANVAS
SIZE 400 X 250

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Courtney is a young Artist that has only been painting now for 5 months. She has an extremely sense for detail and has excelled in her art since day one.  Besides the fact that she is a friendly outspoken student, her discipline in her art is extraordinary. She has a wonderful Arts Career ahead of her and the way she manages her arts career, is to be applauded.  

MARINA NIENABER ERWEE

TITLE : EASTERN FREESTATE
OIL ON CANVAS

ANITA VOLSCHENK ART

PORTRAIT
OIL ON CANVAS
760 X 1000

ANITA VOLSCHENK ART

MEDIUM : OIL ON CANVAS

TITLE : PORTRAIT
MEDIUM : OIL ON CANVAS
SIZE : 760 X 1000

THABO SYLVESTER SEJESHO

PORTRAIT : OF HIMSELF
MEDIUM: COLOR PENCILS ON 160 GSM PAPER
2017

THABO SYLVESTER SEJESHO

TITLE : LERUO " THE COWS "
MEDIUM: COLOR PENCILS ON 160 GSM PAPER
SIZE A2
2017

RINA CALITZ

TITLE: THE RED CHAIR
OIL ON CANVAS
90 X 60

TITLE : BOETA
MEDIUM : OIL ON CANVAS
SIZE : 160 X 200

NIKI MAARTENS

TITLE : PORTRAIT ----BEAUTY IS IN ALL OF US
MEDIUM : OIL ON CANVAS
SIZE : 1200 X 900

TITLE : SEA COTTAGE
MEDIUM: OIL ON CANVAS
SIZE: 1000 X 800

TITLE : SEA SUNSET
MEDIUM: OIL ON CANVAS
SIZE : 750 X 450

TITLE : ELEPHANT SPLASH
MEDIUM: OIL ON VANVAS
SIZE : 1500 X 1000

 

TITLE: HORSE POWER
MEDIUM: OIL ON CANVAS
SIZE : 400 X 340

 TITLE: TITANIC
MEDIUM: OIL ON CANVAS
SIZE : 750 X 450

ABOUT THE ARTIST :

Niki was born in Piermaritzburg, Kwazulu Natal where he matriculated . He then went on to Potchefstroom Univarsity where he qualified as Tax Consultant. As youngster he was a sport fanatic and competed in boxing, wrestling, cross country running, squash, table tennis and swimming.

His interest in Art started in 1993 and he started painting and drawing, specializing in portraits, seascapes, wildlife, flowers and landscapes, with emphasis on sunsets . He absolutely loves elephants and it is displayed in many of his paintings. He also does only oil and then charcoal, and  pencils. 

He started his own Art School on the 18th November 2016 and 26 students enrolled the first class. 

He now has started the ART-X Blog to help fellow up and coming artists to market their paintings on an International basis.