ART FROM WHAT REMAINS
We do not remember the world intact. Time changes it. Places, people, and
moments stay with us long after the rest has faded.
We inherit places, stories, images, and ways of seeing.
Memory changes things. We add to it. We distort it. We romanticise it.
Some moments disappear completely. Others stay buried for years
before returning in another form.
The mind rebuilds what it cannot let go of. Places become symbols.
People become ghosts of who they were. Time fills the gaps with
invention.
Painting is how I work through those fragments.
Using distortion and shifting perspective, I reconstruct
rather than record.
These paintings are not about preserving memory.
They come from the distance between
what happened and what remains.
ABOUT
I am a contemporary South African painter based in Cape Town.
My work moves between painting, drawing, and printmaking,
shaped by how memory and perception alter experience.
I work primarily in oil, alongside gouache, watercolour, oil pastel,
and linocut printmaking.
My paintings draw on remembered places, people, and
passing moments. They move between observation
and recollection.
Images are not fixed records, but reconstructed forms of experience.
Memory does not preserve the world intact. It changes what
is kept and what is lost. Places, faces, and moments return
in altered form.
Colour, distortion, and shifting perspective act as a kind of language.
Meaning is carried, not explained.
I reconstruct rather than record.