Approach

​My work begins in the fleeting moments when light turns the ordinary into something quietly radiant.

I’m drawn to scenes that drift past unnoticed — a shifting reflection, a brief glow on a shoreline, the hush that gathers at dusk — where colour deepens, texture breathes, and subtle patterns rise and fade like a pulse...

Through small‑scale acrylic paintings and photographic studies, I follow these subtle movements of light, distilling not the scene itself, but the feeling it leaves behind.

Across both mediums, I return to the same thread: the extraordinary held gently inside the everyday.

My work is an invitation to pause, to look again, and to enter these small, radiant spaces with attention and openness...

Selected Works

Artwork Details

A Late Summer Pastoral (2025)

Acrylic on canvas, Diptych

The land rests in its own warmth, and the shepherd moves through it like a quiet thought...

Memory as Landscape /Big Bay Beach (2025)

Acrylic on Canvas

“Some colours don’t describe a place — they remember it.... And here, the sky remembers everything: the salt‑soft mornings, the long horizon where ships linger like unspoken thoughts, the walkers stitched into the sand. Table Mountain-in its quiet certainty, holding the weight of all the light that has ever touched it. This is not a moment captured — it is a place returning to itself through colour." (myFITM)

Stormy Skies Over Cassis (2022)

Acrylic on Canvas

The harbour holds its breath as the sky gathers its storm, and every colour sharpens in the waiting light. (Cassis, Southern France)

Still Water (2023)

Acrylic on Board

Stillness becomes a reflection — a place where everything is exactly where it needs to be. (Spier Wine Estate, South Africa)

Rooi Els Beach (2024)

Acrylic on Canvas

A place where the wind finishes the sentences the waves begin…

Course Belsunce (2017)

Acrylic on Canvas

“The street hums with the soft choreography of ordinary life. Chairs scrape, voices mingle, and the shade of the trees gathers the afternoon into itself. Here, time doesn’t pass — it settles, gently, into the spaces between people.” (myFITM)

Field Workers (2016)

Acrylic on Panel

Beneath the wide sky, the day is shaped by hands...

Malta (2021)

Acrylic on Board

Boats drift like fragments of a story told in blues and golds, every ripple is a small echo of the day’s warmth...

Christmas in Frankfurt (2025)

Acrylic on Paper

In the winter glow, the city gathers — each light a small promise of joy. (Christmas Card)

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