Curbing anxiety & stress with art With the rise of COVID-19 stay home and do art! With so much more time at home, it is essential to spend some time flexing your creative muscle. Creativity is a part of the human experience and is not something which ‘some people can do and others cannot’, rather […]
Creativity is the new currency. According to the World Economic Forum, by 2020 creativity and creative thinking will be third on the list of the most important skills needed to survive and thrive in the fourth industrial revolution. In an article on Fin24.com, Richard Haines, CEO of the South African Cultural Observatory, and Rosemary Mangopa, CEO of the […]
Street Art Lingo Essential information for anyone wanting to go and view some graffiti or street art. During 2019 I had the privilege of doing 3 graffiti tours. First up was seeing the East End of London in the UK. In this tour, I really learnt about the evolution of graffiti and started to get enamoured with […]
My father always said that if I wrote a book about my life, no one would believe me. So you might be tempted to file this under fiction, even though this is just a little blurb in the life of Lillian, but I can promise you it’s all true, cross my heart…blah blah blah however […]
Brushing up against Modern Art My defining moment ambushed me on a beautifully bright summers day in Stellenbosch, South Africa. I remember looking up at the clear blue sky and thinking, “I cannot do this.” I was in the second year of my art degree and I had just walked out of final assessments. Here […]
Art project Gregoire Boonzaier Scraperboard History Lesson: Gregoire Boonzaier (31 July 1909 – 22 April 2005) was a South African artist well known for his landscapes, portraits and still life paintings. He was a famous exponent of Cape Impressionism, a founder of the New Group, and a contributor, through his artworks, to the struggle against apartheid. […]
“Mom, I’m bored!” Here’s why it is good for kids to be bored These dreaded words make us scramble to come up with ideas to keep our kids busy. The norm these days is to switch on the television or put a device in their hands. We feel better for having solved the problem and […]
5 Creative games I play with myself People ask me “how come you are so creative?” …and the answer is straightforward – we are all creative. The trick is to let ourselves be creative and to allow our selves to be silly, random and free. I have found that being in a state of play […]
Why is modern art so bad? For two millennia, great artists set the standard for beauty. Now those standards are gone. Modern art is a competition between the ugly and the twisted; the most shocking wins. What happened? How did the beautiful come to be reviled and bad taste come to be celebrated? Renowned artist […]
Is It OK to Draw and Paint From Photos? The world of art has its fair share of controversies that extend beyond the realm of subject matter. Artists typically have their own opinions on the process, ideas, and materials and many of them are extremely passionate about their beliefs. Some people believe that certain colours […]