Category Archives: Autobiography

Artist’s statement

Posted on December 22, 2016 by Reviva

For Ulrich who would have been here like a shot and whom I am going to miss forever. Everything’s a story. My life, a myriad of stories trailing behind me: childhood, MA in Fine Art, my husband and two sons, … Continue reading →

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My brilliant painting career

Posted on December 14, 2016 by Reviva

It’s in this spirit, I paint.

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Click!

Posted on December 11, 2016 by Reviva

How wonderful when you recognise the selfsame image you came across on a vague, unstructured walk in the Drakensberg in a display at the lovely, charming Himeville Museum, 17 km away. Click!     A detail on a huge boulder that … Continue reading →

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Exhibition of my works

Posted on December 1, 2016 by Reviva

To see the works that will be exhibited and to purchase them before they go up, please click this link: https://revivaschermbrucker.co.za/?page_id=22

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Mission accomplished

Posted on October 28, 2016 by Reviva

My parents, George and Yehudith Jameson at the launch of a solo exhibition of my mother’s paintings at Upstairs@Bamboo in Melville, Johannesburg on 15th October, 2016

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The Drakensberg revealed itself to us…

Posted on October 28, 2016 by Reviva

A walk I will never forget in Cobham, South Drakensberg

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Shake hands with Buddha

Posted on June 8, 2016 by Reviva

A friend came visiting with this gift. It’s a citron called Buddha’s hand. Smells citrus-stunning, looks vegetable-cunning. Makes me stupidly happy. I am finding that I have a zest for all things zesty. It takes very small things…

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Wedding Dress

Posted on April 20, 2016 by Reviva

Sons are not, in the main, great shopping companions. Mine are complaining in and out types, fixing on an item as quickly as possible, ducking from considering alternatives I might point out to them, making for the tills in tortured … Continue reading →

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family memories in watercolour

Posted on February 9, 2016 by Reviva
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watercolour cloth book: family album

Posted on February 6, 2016 by Reviva

 

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