a South African oil painter based in Cape Town with a degree in Fine Art from the Michaelis School of Fine Art. I make surrealist paintings that use animals as vessels for very human issues: things we'd rather look away from, sometimes strange, sometimes funny, sometimes uncomfortable. Women's issues show up a lot in my work too, wrapped in fantasy and myth so they land differently than they would head-on.
My love for animals has been with me since I was a kid, and it's still the thread running through almost everything I paint. I started building my social media presence back in university, alongside working in galleries and learning how to actually sell my art, lessons that shaped both how I make work and how I share it.
I don't paint to give answers. I paint to make you pause and ask a question you hadn't thought to ask before. That's why realism matters so much in my process: if the image is convincing enough, even the strangest idea becomes impossible to dismiss.
In this course, I'll walk you through my entire process, from that first spark of an idea to a finished painting.
