Biography
"My work questions notions of belief and scripture in relation to mythology, folklore, Christian art, and feminist spiritual thinking. I create a personal iconography that borrows from religious art and applies symbolist ideas to images that reconnect the female body to its sacred ancestor, the Goddess. The title Post-Christian Alter Images serves to describe the continuum of a decade-long research and exploration of the divine female as she relates to my Calvinist upbringing in opposition to my feminist spiritual need for a gender-shift in deity. The works employ symbolism from pagan as well as Christian iconography, and I am particularly drawn to those symbols that have migrated across time from its pagan origins to re-emerge in Christian iconography." HISTORY
I was born on February 19, 1945 in Kroonstad. I completed three years of study at the Johannesburg Art School from 1963 to 1965. I worked in advertising and fashion illustration in Johannesburg, got married and had a daughter and a son. Started painting in 1977 when I was 32 year old. Exhibited work in Johannesburg and Pretoria. Immigrated to New York in 1981 where I lived, worked, divorced, taught drawing and exhibited until 2004 when I returned to South Africa. Built a studio at Kampersus where I now live, paint, and teach.
