Cape Town artist showcases her unique PAINTING & SCULPTURE.I curate and deal in SOUTH AFRICAN botanical art.
HELLO
Surrounded as we are by the whirlpool of negative media, world leaders trying to out-mad each other daily, local politicians pushing thorns in our side and Kokerbooms keeling over, I have picked up my angle grinder and paint brushes to create a few moments of calm and contemplation.
I am a hard-edge abstract Cape Town artist and botanical art curator known for painting and sculpture. Colour stimulates our brains and our imaginations and I want my works to inject life and vibrancy onto the walls of homes and working spaces. Audiences complete these visual puzzles that as they work out their own meaning in their heads.
'Keyhole', 91 x 76cm, acrylic on canvas, 2024
(Spier Art Collection)
BOTANICAL ART CURATION & SALES
I am the curator and project leader of the James & Shirley Sherwood Botanical Art Collection at the Stellenbosch University Botanical Garden. I curate an annual Botanical Art & Photography exhibition for them. I am the primary contact for the sales of these works and I represent some of South Africa's best botanical artists. I have helped Ellerman House build their first botanical art collection and have placed many works in prestigious collections in South Africa. I chair the Botanical Artists' Association of southern Africa (Cape).
Gail de Smidt, Protea caffra sub. Caffra, 51 x 36 cm , 91 x 76cm, watercolour on Arches, 2019
WORLDART SOLO SHOW JUNE 2025
CURRENT SCULPTURES
C U R R E N T C L A Y W O R K S 2025
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About Me
GRAHAM CONTEMPORARY
About Me
I am represented by WORLDART and Graham Contemporary.
Contact my galleries directly to acquire my work.
My paper and clay works are available directly from me.
WORLDART
GRAHAM CONTEMPORARY
About Me
WORLDART specialises in supporting African urban and contemporary artists. Established in 2004 and situated in Cape Town, South Africa, this gallery has nurtured several of South Africa’s top contemporary artists and remains committed to introducing new artists with a bright future.
OWNER: Charl Bezuidenhout
GRAHAM CONTEMPORARY
GRAHAM CONTEMPORARY
GRAHAM CONTEMPORARY
Graham Contemporary represents living contemporary artists, emerging, mid-career and established, from Africa and diaspora in a critically engaged programme with a focus on concept and abstraction in the African context, exclusively on the primary market.
OWNER: Graham Britz
COLLECTIONS
DECONSTRUCTION, 2025, 78 x 70cm, Plywood, The Joy Project solo at WORLDART, Cape Town
Cat Cow Escape Monotomy, 71 x 56cm, 2024, Brave New World, Graham Contemporary, Johannesburg
We are not alone, paper collage, SIX, London
Reconstruction, 2023, Ceramics SA Regional Exhibition, Cape Town & Makers' Mark Exhibition, Hangklip Ceramics Festival
Supported 5 clay works, 2021, Available directly from the artist
Flyovers and Drive-bys, collage (collaboration with Ed Suter), Lagos Biennale 2019. Available from Graham Contemporary