So Anyway...

It's been quite a while since my last post, and rather a lot has happened. Out here in the African Sticks the big annual shindig is summer season, when the N2 snaking along the Garden Route fills up with happy holiday makers eager to spend the money they've slaved for all year. It's rather like the Sardine Run elsewhere along the coast, only with BMWs.

So I took advantage of an empty shop at a fascinating take on the shopping experience - Timberlake Village in the middle of everywhere alongside the N2 - and put on an exhibition of work by myself and some other local artists.

Looks awfully trendy don't it just?





Well, be that as it may it all went pretty well and by the end of season the place was almost cleaned out.

Recession? Huh?

So anyway.

The point of this bit of back patting is that the various works in progress reported on last year were brought to completion for the show. In particular Beach House Kleinkrantz last mentioned as merely a thought was done, up in pride of place and nice and big.

Earthen Moon, Tall Story and Scorpio Sunbird were also complete and were sold over season along with Beach House and African Dream. Of these Earthen Moon, Scorpio Sunbird and Beach House are still available in limited numbers as giclee prints on art canvas.

So what now?

Well, I rather like Timberlake, so after the show was taken down I thought I'd try the shop out as a working studio/gallery. It's been about 2 months now and I'm rather enjoying this, having started on a new series of paintings derived from the 2009 "Afrika Burns" gathering.

More about that shortly...