I am working on a new art project and, this August, I need the help of other women. I paint with lipstick. It’s a medium that is intimately associated with […]
Category: Stories behind the work
#SoMuchAmaze
I’m holding a 40th birthday party at the end of August. It’s a depressing number, even terrifying, and I reckon that the best way to deal with it is to […]
The nakedness of art
Art is terrifying. To put your art out there on display in the world, and to place a price on it, is to ask the world to love you, and […]
Inspiration
Lots of things inspire me to paint. A feeling, a sky. Birds. A view. The suck and sigh of the sea as it meets rock. Fish quivering beneath the ripples.
Gratitude
This is a painting for all of the people who have helped me in some way on this journey. Thank you to Kim Mazabow, who loved what she saw […]
How I found blue and green
Painting in lipstick presents certain practical problems, the most most obvious being that it only comes in certain colours. So, while some of the shades I’ve managed to track down […]
I am that which has emerged from the fire
We’ve all seen them on Facebook, those Oprahesque quotes trembling with worthiness and heavy with exhortations to share if you are a human being with a shred of moral decency. […]
How I started painting hearts
Yes, it’s unbelievably girly I know. But I like painting hearts. The first time I ever attempted a heart was after I got dumped by a post-divorce boyfriend. I was […]
My official exhibition video
My dear friend and diehard Stevie Nicks fan Malcolm Lennox has been an important part of my first exhibition. I’ve known him for nearly 20 years – ever since 1993 […]
#JoziTweetArt needs a good home
Two months ago I ran a campaign called #JoziTweetArt inviting people to tweet about Johannesburg. The idea was that I’d collect the tweets, write them into one of my works […]
Money on the move: Johannesburg’s love affair with the car
An edited version of this piece appeared in the Sunday Times Lifestyle supplement in November 2011. “YES, we do have a conscience, and it tells us to get that car.” […]
On selling Panic to an Australian
Australia only features in one of the paintings on exhibition, but the ghost of it is everywhere. So it made perfect sense that yesterday a man should wander into the […]