Muse Art Gallery

I live and work in Pretoria, South Africa. The constantly changing interaction between nature and manmade activities in the urban environment fascinate and inspire  my art. 

I love the wilderness and spending time in the organic places created by animals and plants. Humans have the capacity and the need to create ordered space and straight lines that enable sanitary conditions for human life. Sometimes we forget that we are also biological beings, deeply interdependent on other life forms, from the microbiome that live in us to the plant and animal food that we eat. Humans are not apart from nature.

My interest lies in the interface between the manmade spaces and those created by other life forms. I find cities, especially the city I live in, is an incredibly rich collegial space, a unique urban wilderness. I believe there is a deep, often unconscious need for humans to connect with greenery, to inhale the air produced by plants, soil, bacteria, and spend time observing and connecting with animals. 

The art that I make comes from my daily awareness of the lush urban wilderness I live in. As I move through the spaces in my repetitive daily rhythms, I notice small changes and develop a ‘relationship’ with plants, animals and people in my environment. This is the source for my work.

I have a Masters degree in visual arts, from University of South Africa

1999 to 2006 Operated a mosaic studio featuring various exhibitions and gave workshops

October 2012 Masters exhibition Kgorong gallery, UNISA

2013 Part of a South African Women’s exhibition in Windhoek, Namibia

September 2014 Solo exhibition Fried Gallery

October 2016 Group exhibition, 'The Creatives', Lynnwood

July 2018 Group exhibition at the National Arts festival in Grahamstown

July 2019 Solo exhibition at the National Arts festival in Grahamstown

September 2019 Group exhibition at Johan van den Heever gallery

November 2021 Permanent exhibition at Chemical Process Technologies Pharma lab.

February 2022 Group exhibition: Artist as shaman with CAP institute, at Kyalami

February 2023 Open studio exhibition at my home.

July 2023 Group exhibition: Rhizome at Latuvu gallery, Bages, France

November 2023, Group exhibition with SANAVA: The Object, at George museum.