One evening early in April while eating dinner my husband and I decided on a whim to go to a grand art festival held 500 km's from us in Oudtshoorn! We organised for leave that same evening as well as for accommodation in Oudtshoorn and at 5 am the next morning we were on our way! At 10 am we arrived :)
It was a week long event with lots of shows.... we decided to only focus on the art that was on exhibition, as this is always a grand occasion.
Louis Jansen van Vuuren had a exhibition of larger than life paintings... as well as some interesting jewelry art pieces...
We were lucky to attend a showing of art by famous SA artist Sandra Hanekom... and had Leon Vermeulen to tell about his art...
Well known SA ceramicist Hennie Meyer told us about his process ... going about an interesting constellation...
Gordon Froud shared his experiences as an artist in his reconstructed studio (especially done for this art festival)...
Jan du Toit exhibited some beautiful work...
...as did Phillemon Hlungwani...
and Jaco van Schalkwyk...
The absolute highlight of this art experience was to meet and experience the phenomenal artist, Willem Boshoff. To see his reconstructed studio (especially done for the art festival) and to go on a artist walk with him ... to learn from him to look closely to every detail around you... especially in nature walks... there is so much detail to interpret into art...
Willem explaining the artist walk to us before we received a map to the 'mystery destination'...
Some of the detail i saw on this artist walk...
After two days filled with unexpected art we were filled with gratefulness for an amazing shared experience between husband and wife... a passion shared... and celebrated...
(There were so much more thought provoking art and encounters with artists... but all sadly cannot fit into a single blog post...)
