Author Archives: Reviva

On the washline

Posted on April 24, 2018 by Reviva

Hanging up to view, ‘2 Acres and a Donkey’, a painting/drawing 5 meters long by 1 and a half high. Ink, acrylic, rabbit skin glue and oils on cloth.

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insights/conversations growing out of drawing

Posted on March 31, 2018 by Reviva

Adding colour to another depressing but strangely satisfyingly shaped haul of washed-up trash. Why I like these battered shapes…something lodging in the primitive brain, I suspect. Perhaps a kind of gestalt. I move closer and closer to the two greats … Continue reading →

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leafing

Posted on November 22, 2017 by Reviva

A matter of focus…shadows throw doubt on the matter. These are plume poppies. Their wildly serrated leaf margins, a giddy dance for the eye, contrast with their calm, green-grey openness, like palms being held up for us to read.

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Hopeful Soapful

Posted on October 15, 2017 by Reviva

Castile soap ( 100% olive oil soap ) made by us, curing for the required 6 weeks,  6 months, whatever. It was a bit of a rocky process that went from failure to hope to failure to hope a few … Continue reading →

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Practicing scales before the big day

Posted on September 30, 2017 by Reviva
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An exhibition in waiting

Posted on September 26, 2017 by Reviva
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Noospheric Nights – A poem

Posted on August 20, 2017 by Reviva

The post below is illustrated with 2 paintings that are currently listed on my website under the heading Paintings and will be on exhibition at 6 Spin Street, Cape Town, for the month of October. The opening is on 5 … Continue reading →

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Exhibition of new paintings: noospheric* nights

Posted on August 17, 2017 by Reviva
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Opening of Exhibition at 6 Spin Street

Posted on February 1, 2017 by Reviva

   

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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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