Serengeti misty sunrise Painting

I was born in Pretoria and spend most of my school years in hostel at Naboomspruit, a small town in the northern part of South Africa, a Province now called Limpopo. I spent many hours in the veldt and developed a special love for nature as well as its big and small inhabitants. The splendour, majesty and ever-changing weather within seasons creates an extent of beauty that always awakened a yearning to be able to lay it down on canvas or paper. I started off with water color paintings in about 1980 and painted countless landscapes, farms, flowers and Cape Dutch homes. For a period after the water painting era I stopped painting as I personally found water color somewhat boring and non-creative. A couple of years ago my wife and I decided to take some oil painting classes and since then I cannot get enough time to paint. My creativity seems to find no stale place and I love to find new challenges and subjects to paint. I am extremely thankful for receiving a talent to be able to see God’s amazing creation and to humbly lay it out as I perceive it onto canvas.