I took part in a Plein Air event at Terrigal last weekend with 21 other artists. It was an amazing experience. I created a crime scene at Terrigal beach, produced on a gorgeous day in collaboration with the 5 lands walk. Do look at the Youtube video linked below.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/QVwpP4hJI1U


Thanks for looking and feel free to make contact. I always love to know how people perceive what I do, or don't do.

July is being an amazing month. We are having the 5 Lands walk event on at Terrigal and I'm doing a Plein Air Artwork tmrw with 21 other stablished artists from the region. It will be my first Plein Air artwork. I often work outside but I don't paint or draw what I see. I find it hard to be unconstrained in what I see. 

I have been thinking about my cultural background, being South African with our Apartheid past.  So also Australians have a very similar past with the Aboriginal people. But somehow they stil need recognition. Just as our cultures have made mistakes in the past, I hope we have learnt from it. Racism is just not necisary as we all live on one planet, breath the same air and dream of a better future. Who was here first? Well we all know that the Aboriginal people have been here for very long, but then why would people discriminate people who's parents werent born here, when their own grandparents werent born here? Is it first come owns the right to discriminate? I dont think that should be the way. I have been inducted into the Darkinjang tribe of Aboriginals last Saturday together with a group of about 20 people. This was as a result of a period of personal discovery in relation to the Aboriginal culture. We found that we have much in common with a love and respect for nature. It's a real honour and I will forever be proud to be part of a people in Australia that embrace nature and live with it, not against it. 

There is a few exhibitions on this month if you are interested. We are building my studio downstairs so I don't have much time to produce new works, but I have done some A4 drawings, about 15. If you are in Sydney, please do pop in at Kaleidoscope gallery in Danks street. Next will be 'At the vanishing point' in Newtown on the 28th, thursday. I will have 20 artworks up there and it's gona be sick! hows that for Ozie lingo, mate! thanks for reading. God bless you, and God bless me and the whole of this gorgeous country and all of it's wonderful people. 

I am disgusted by the idea that people who copy artworks would be named artists. Would my photocopier be called an artist, or my camera, or my TV? People need to realise that Art is not about reproduction, but about creating. The Art Series Hotels just placed themselves at the absolute bottom of my list of places to see. What fraudsters! To deliberately commission a criminal to produce fake artworks and then use it as a Marketing tool to get their name out there! These things upsets me, clearly. It's immoral and just plainly spoiling the general public's perception of Art. Art is meant to express and interpret. Andy Warhol rules for being original and actually had a think about what he was doing and creating.

As for Tony Tetro; he at least admits himself that he is not an artist but a criminal, in an interview on a breakfast show in Australia some weeks ago. As for all the people out there who thinks that art is about reproduction, please don't. If you don't have ideas, then just leave other people's creations alone, unless you are willing to interpret it and make it your own. 

Once again, Marketing is a dirty business.... do people have to act immoral to be able to sell? Please don't ever tell me that you visited an Art Series Hotel!