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...)
Wow, another amazing artreat! ;) I am in awe that you can take so much in. I fail after one big museum as it's just too much for me and I go numb.
ReplyDeleteI totally love your detail photos! That must have been an interesting to do.
Nini, I totally know what your talking about when 'going numb' from to much to take in! Experiences like the art festival where we had very limited time - I just let it roll over me and afterwards take away that which left imprints... Or go back to the photographs and with them remember the awesomeness of the moments - re-experiences in smaller chunks. Definitely from now on hopefully I would be able to go back to sketchbooks to help me remember my experiences :D
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