Where light returns

Not perfection; just life.

I’ve been drawing for as long as I can remember. At a youth church camp in the mountains I realised my love for art was more than a pastime. That was the first time I realised creativity is a gift – you’re entrusted with it.

I studied commercial art at Johannesburg Technikon and went into graphic design and advertising – hand-rendered illustration, packaging and tight deadlines, long before everything went digital. I loved it, but it was breaking me. I later started my own design studio, and becoming a mother reignited a need to return to the canvas in a deeply personal way.

When my boys started school, painting slowly came back – first in fragments of time, then as small commissions that grew through word of mouth into larger interior pieces and international sales.

“I love seascapes, landscapes, figures, florals – I don’t want to be limited. My strength is versatility.”

I work mostly in oils and mixed media, painting intuitively and letting each piece unfold. My design background shapes my composition; my subjects move between seascapes, landscapes, figures, florals and still lifes. My palette has shifted too – from darker, dramatic contrast to something lighter and more coastal. It was my son who noticed first: “Why do you always paint dark colours?” It stayed with me. Now I paint brightness and everyday moments – children at the beach, shifting light, quiet observation.

I’m on a mission to rescue art from gallery walls and bring it back into everyday life – something you connect with over your morning coffee, something that makes you pause in your hallway. From my studio on the North Coast I also collaborate with interior designers on bespoke, site-responsive pieces – custom palettes, specific scales, a particular mood.