Gerrie Van Tonder

Currently working and staying in Jeffreys Bay, South Africa. He paints what he loves, and what speaks to him. He paints for the senses - for feeling, seeing, hearing, touching, smelling - and oil paint lends itself to that.

His medium and technique are simultaneously simple (at times almost minimalistic) and modern. His style is impressionistic and evokes an strong feeling of atmosphere. This is all the more remarkable when one realizes how little descriptive content is provided by the work, and that one's response is almost exclusively the result of the simultaneously bold and sensitive application of light and color.