Paintings
I was lucky as a teenager to have two famous South African artists teach me painting at Pretoria Boys High School – Larry Scully and Walter Battiss.
Through them I was taught a new way of looking at things.
Both Scully and Battiss urged me to pursue a career as a fine artist.
But after three years at art school I chose a different path – advertising.
And advertising was good to me – I rose to the top in a career that culminated in being inducted into the SA Creative Directors Hall of Fame.
I was the first South African creative to judge the Cannes Advertising Festival and receive a Gold Lion at same.
Along the way I helped build big consumer brands for the likes of South African Breweries (now part of AB InBev), Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Plascon and many others.
Some of the commercials I thought up and executed you may remember – Mercedes Benz Chapman’s Peak, the Continental Tyres roof ad, the hedgehog TV ad for Mercedes Benz, the squirrel TV ad for Trust Bank, Middelburg Steel ice hockey…
And then I retired.
That was when I finally took Scully’s and Battiss’s advice – I started painting again.
I paint things that I love – the African bush and landscapes. I use acrylic on canvas. My work speaks for itself.
1. Blue wildebeest, 110 cm x 76 cm 2. Zebu at Bharatpur, 120 cm x 91.5 cm, SOLD 3. Near Beaufort West, 101 cm x 101 cm 4. Green thorns, 101.5 cm x 70 cm 5. Karoo near Loxton, 122 cm x 91.5 cm 6. Kokerboom near Niewoudtville, 122 cm x 91 cm 7. Meiringspoort i, 101 cm x 76 cm 8. Marula, 110 cm x 110 cm, SOLD 9. Looking west towards Manoutsa, 115 cm x 65 cm 10. False marulas, 101.5 cm x 76 cm 11. Warthog, 122 cm x 91.5 cm 12. Meiringspoort ii, 91 cm x 122 cm 13. Marula against a grey sky, 122 cm x 76 cm 14. Green thorn, 122 cm x 91 cm, SOLD 15. Camel along the Yamuna, Delhi, 120 cm x 60 cm, SOLD 16. Vlei lilies, 76 cm x 76 cm 17. African scrub hare, 76 cm x 50 cm 18. Spotted hyena, 101 cm x 76 cm