Preparing for "Islands" at Nirox

I have been spending some time at 58 Maker's Workshop at Nirox, working on some canvases too big for my studio. It is an inspiring and relaxing environment making it too easy to forget the rest of the world. I can't wait to show you these on the 12th of March at Lizamore an Assoc. Gallery.

Thank you Allen for the support.

I'm still here

To those who meditate Travel...

Perhaps you might be wondering why I have been so quiet lately. I have been working on my solo exhibition, ISLANDS, for the past few months and I am still going strong. I don't want to share too much before the exhibition.

So far I have about 25 paintings, most of which still need retouching, finalising and framing, I might also decide to discard some, as my process have been very experimental and some things worked, some didn't. I also have a few more paintings up my sleeve, so I will be working non-stop until the 5th of March. I have made the biggest painting I have ever made, and I painted some things I thought I never would. Looking back, there are a many things I would have done differently and there are a million more paintings I still want to make, but I will do as much as time will allow.

Save the date: 6 March, 2015, Lizamore and Associates Gallery, Johannesburg.

I hope to see you there.

If you wish to be on the mailing list for invites, email 

me: heidiheidifourie@gmail.com or  

The Gallery: info@lizamore.co.za

Smokey Taboo

These paintings were inspired by the song. Smokey Taboo by Cocorosie.

Allen and the waterfall

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Watercolour on plastic

Cumulopestis pigmentus (Sasol New Signatures finalist)

cumulo/cumulus (Latin) – to heap, surplus

pestis (Latin) – destruction

pigmentum (Latin) - pigment

A Cumulopestis pigmentus cloud is a dark, gritty cloud, formed by the build-up and wiping of dark matter, composed of oil and pigment as opposed to water and air.

The act of painting is a continuous and exasperating cycle of forming and destroying, adding and removing, building and erasing, accumulation and evaporation. It is the heaping of pigments and the foreseeable destruction thereof.

Palming (series I)

These are visual interpretations of my virtual travels or palm tree hunting sessions on Google Earth. I visit and explore distant locations, “walking” around until I find a palm tree (commonly associated with exoticness, extravagance and escape) retaining and emphasizing the distortions or digital artefacts present in the computer stitched version of reality. I couple these “travel snapshots” with subtitles, appropriated from A Handbook of Travel-talk by J Murray, 1871.

Coping