The Overberg

This is an area in South Africa that is always most beautiful. In autumn to winter the wheat and canola fields are so green it is almost unreal, especially if they had good rains. In Spring to early summer when the canola starts flowering you have the most amazing yellow fields, green wheat fields with the backdrop of blue mountains and even bluer skies. Then the wheat turns golden and the whole area looks different and has another beauty to it. For painters and photographers this area is a "must" to visit. I have the privilege to drive through there when I visit my parents and I am always amazed at the awesomeness and beauty of the landscape.

Up to now I haven't done many paintings of the Overberg, but they are on my "to do" list. I wonder what was on Renoir's "to do" list???
This painting is a scene on a friend's farm. When I look at it, I can feel the quietness and peace? Do you also feel that?

Deep in the forest...there is a light

A few years have gone by. During that time I was always drawing and painting. I gave many paintings away, also sold a few. By now my paintings were well over R100 per piece. Unfortunately I didn't take pictures of them all. Wish I had. While I was working in Potchefstroom as a meteorologist, I only had weekends to paint. This forest scene was done on one of those weekends.

Even though some might think that it is a very "dark" scene, depicting some dark or evil, I do not look at it that way. I rather look at it as saying that in the middle of this dark and lonely forest, there still is light and peace. And I believe that in the middle of our deepest troubles, if we look at the whole, we will see light and we will find peace.

I still have this painting in my house and it is available if you want to buy it. Although it is framed, I will not include the frame in the price.