Lize Du Plessis

Ballito, KZN, South Africa

About Lize Du Plessis

I completed my schooling at the National School Of Arts in Johannesburg in 1982 and went on to study BA Fine Arts. Being a stubborn person with different ideas I ventured on my own where I started off as a graphic designer as well as doing other exciting things in my life including travel. With age and experience comes wisdom and I have now settled and doing what I love most, Art. This combined with my love for music, reading, crafting and creating good food makes me a very satisfied artist. Since I can remember I loved being creative, especially drawing and contemporary painting. Most of my work is commissioned but when I have a chance to do my own, it must be different and have emotion, from happy colours to dark moods. I don't follow a trend or style, I have my own. I do learn from other artists but do not strive to be like them, just to be better at what I do. Although I have fun with my art I take it very seriously as I do writing poems. I don't follow creative trends and I do not follow the masses. I have done group exhibitions, received recognition and accolades. What inspires me? My surrounding, dreams, music and a good challenge. What's my Dream? To have the opportunity to make a gigantic artwork. I do make big paintings but I want to go bigger, secondly to put an artwork in every home, office and the Guggenheim. "A creative person not able to create is like a lion in a cage. The soul is lost and the spirit extinguished." - Lize - Artist "True ART cannot lie because creation emerges from the inner self, but ART created from raw emotion is more than the truth, it's painful. It is like being kicked in the gut and punched in the face at the same time." - Lize - Artist "True artists have an eternal fire that burns deep inside their soul. Don't ignore it, feed it, the yearning flame is not going to die, no matter how hard you try." - Lize - Artist I live with my partner Tony and our Jackie Frida. We settled in Ballito Kwa-Zulu Natal, a beautiful town on the Dolphin Coast after living in the most interesting places in South Africa and Mozambique. Between us, we have four boys, 2 officers, travelling the world working on boats and ships, 1 an Art director and the youngest an Architect.

Education:

National School of Arts

Exhibitions:

I had numerous group exhibitions over the years and apart of my commissions started working on an exhibition "Fact or Fiction".

Lize Du Plessis

About Lize Du Plessis

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