CROATIA ART CRUISE - Images HERE

The recently completed seven-day 2011 Art Cruise of the Croatian Islands was a huge and happy success.

The white limestone islands are most beautiful and picturesque, the sea is calm and unbelievably blue, the area is historically fascinating, and the architecture exhibits layers of cultures as far back as the Greeks 300BC.

We did wonderful things. We swam off the back of the boat every day in the crystal clear Adriatic; we explored medieval alleyways and ancient churches; we shared pizzas in sidewalk cafes; we bought coral jewellery; we had late-night picnics on the top deck with the moon sailing in the indigo sky; and we ate loads of delicious ice-cream cones.

Wherever we went we sketched, took colour notes and hundreds of photographs, giving us creative material for years of in-studio work.

Booking is already open for the 2012 Croatia Cruises in August/September.

For more info, contact me - be quick as places are already filling up!

(Posted 2011-09-23)

I have recently completed an important commission for the Misty Hills Hotel in Muldersdrift.

The Hotel has a grand new entrance and reception area with an African Colonial theme.

In keeping with this theme, CEO Mr Robert Forsyth requested oil portraits of
Cecil John Rhodes, Zulu Chief Cetshwayo, and Winston Churchill as a young man
at the turn of the last century.

The paintings are each 1m x 1.2 m which is larger than I have worked before in oil.

It was a great challenge, and one that I enjoyed.

2009 Wildlife Artist of the Year Competition Exhibition Award - SPECIAL COMMENDATION!