Sapphire Dawn Painting

What asks to be painted is a question that concerns all artists. After experimenting with a number of subjects, it has been the vast oceans that have captured and sustain my imagination. This complex body of water, that is both fragile and all-powerful, that feeds us and transports us, can also so easily destroy us and sweep our land away before it. Here, on the South African coast, we are intimately connected to the seas that jostle each other at our southernmost tip. It is this intense relationship that I seek to capture in my paintings. My views of the ocean are not distant seascapes, but close up encounters that try to convey some of the sheer splendor of each unique experience. If I can communicate the deep affinity and longing for the primal waters that I believe we all share, if those who see my paintings feel, even briefly, a thrill, a resonance, a primeval pull toward the sea, then as an artist, I am content.