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Media - Oil Painting
Address - PO Box 441, Rustenburg 0300, South Africa
Phone - 0721804966
Email - [email protected]
Website - http://www.artistsforconservation.co.za
The couple met at an art exhibition, already
being skilled artists at the time. Coincidentally, they both worked in oil on canvas –
as they still prefer to today, after 37 years of marriage.
Although complete individuals in both their
personalities and art, they have, in certain respects, sometimes worked as a team through
the years. Not in the sense of influencing, but rather inspiring each other.
Faan has the uncanny ability to create bushveld
landscapes largely from memory. He has a special affinity for a lone elephant bull –
often depicted against a hazy backdrop, skillfully highlighted by a gently filtering sun.
The scenery will sometimes be subtly
interrupted by a thorn tree or faraway sloping hills. His mood can also take him to harsher
territory – sun-scorched cracked soil; an imposing Baobab; a curving dirt road
tracking through thick sand.
An unsuspecting spectator can easily be
transported to a stirring view of migrating antelope, enveloped in dust, a herd of grazing
buffalo on rich plains, or simply Africa in it’s fullness under a glowering, thundery
sky.
Through the years, Linda has virtually
perfected her photo-realistic style.
This contrast to her husband’s style
undoubtedly sprouts from a more perfectionistic, puritan soul. But look closer, and see the
love and dedication invested in each of her beloved big cats.
Exquisitely executed, one can almost reach out
and touch a slumbering leopard draped over a branch, or experience awe and respect at the
sight of a dark-maned lion, staring at you with amber eyes, every whisker and scar and
rippling muscle perfectly proportioned and real.
Faan and Linda have been commissioned by
Pilanesberg Nature Reserve (located near Sun City), where of course the Big Five can be
found. Also to their credit, they are both well-known in South Africa and have sold
paintings in Holland, England and the United States.
They remain intensely dedicated to their art.
“For talent will not be kept silent.”
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