“I started drawing and dreaming before I could walk, but it
took me forty years to find my artistic voice."
Anny started drawing people when she was still a toddler and
excelled in art throughout her school career. After matriculating in
Stellenbosch where she had studied at the PJ Olivier Art Centre, she completed
a three year Fine Art course at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology.
Followed by a year at the Cape Town School of Fashion Design
and for the next few years, she worked in fashion and as a textile designer.
Her love of fabric is still evident in her work, where figures are sensually
draped in soft and textured materials.
After branching off into numerous career and study paths
such as journalism, tourism, psychology and literature, her gift for
portraiture was a thread that eventually brought her back to her art at the age
of forty. This was when Anny and her daughter went to live in a remote mountain
village in search of a simpler, quieter life. In this close-knit community,
surrounded by clear rivers, majestic mountains and the numerous awe-inspiring
aspects of unadulterated nature, her deep connection with mother earth
developed.
Against this background her reflective nature and awareness
of the human spirit was able to find expression in her pastel paintings of
women. She captures that moment of stillness and introspection where the person
is in harmony with all of creation. The spiritual quality that pervades her
work is often subtly symbolized by the use of an empty bowl, a stone vessel
holding water, a single candle or simply a cupped hand, suggesting the fullness
and emptiness of life.
Anny has gained recognition in South Africa due to her
unique talents and both local and international art lovers and collectors seek
after her work.
( Sourse www.danteartgallery.co.za)
I love your work, Masterful!
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