I often change my avatar, and frequently use my art on my Facebook and Twitter profiles. Because the mark on my left thumb is purple, and I use a lot […]
Category: Politics
Freedom Day
Sometimes it’s much easier for me to articulate my feelings about an event in art rather than words, and Freedom Day is one of them. Most of the commemoration around […]
Painting Madiba
This year I’ve done several paintings inspired by Madiba. On Sunday, I painted this to commemorate his burial. On Monday, I painted him inside the form of the secretary bird […]
A birthday card for the Arch
This is a birthday card for Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, who turns 82 on October 7. It is inspired by the colours of his cassock – ecclesiastical purple and this […]
Marikana: never again
Friday 16 August was the anniversary of the Marikana massacre in which a total of 44 people died, 34 of them shot by the police. Marikana, with its hopelessly entangled […]
Marikana: In Honour of Pinky Mosiane
Yesterday, August 16, was the first anniversary of the Marikana massacre, when 34 miners were shot dead by police. In total, 44 people died. But 6 months before Marikana, a […]
May your spirit soar like birds
This is a sketch for a larger work. On Sunday night I read on Twitter that the Presidency announced that Nelson Mandela’s condition is “critical”. So, collectively, we braced ourselves […]
Freedom Day
I often paint political themes, and on the occasion of Freedom Day, I thought I’d draw up a quick sketch. 19 years ago I voted in South Africa’s first democratic […]