It's always exciting when a gallery accepts one's work to exhibit in their space. It's even better when it's a newly opened gallery which has created quite a buzz, and when it's literally around the corner. This new gallery is filled with work of good taste and is especially colourful at night time when I walk past.

The ikkat Gallery on Main is in Sea Point, Cape Town. It's fully of beautiful and exciting contemporary South African art, and must be a really go-to gallery for anyone interested in decor and design.

I've delighted to have so many pieces of my art work on show in the gallery.
Their on-line display of my work on their website is also very attractive. Really worth a visit!

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The Gardens Shul, the Cape Town Hebrew Congregation, was established 1841 and is the oldest congregation in South Africa. Built in 1862 the structure may be the oldest synagogue building in the country. Situated in Paddock Avenue in the Gardens area of central Cape Town, the building has the appearance of a temple with a stone frontage comprising a heavy colonnade of Egyptian-style columns which bear an unusual combination of decorative Greek and Egyptian motifs.

Today the building forms the entrance to the Jewish Museum. In 1941 the centenary year of the Cape Town Hebrew Congregation, a society to establish a Jewish Museum and Archives was founded in Cape Town. Its main object was to collect and preserve articles and documents, illustrating the history of the Jewish community in South Africa, but the project made slow progress, and it was not until August 1958 that the museum was opened officially.

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The Adderley Street Flower Market is one of the oldest markets in Cape Town. For over 150 years these ladies have been selling their flowers in the Adderley Street Flower Market where the businesses have been handed down from grandmother to mother to daughter.

Here you’ll find hundreds of flower bouquets in colourful pots, buckets and containers. These flowers are much cheaper than you’d find in any shop. The prices aren’t fixed and it’s a pleasure to bargain with these bright and witty ladies to come to a price you both agree on. But remember, they have to make a living!

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All my works are available as high quality prints on non-archival paper or on stretched canvas.
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The quiet town of Oudtshoorn lies between the majestic mountains of the Klein Karoo. In winter, snow covers the nearby mountain peaks and in summer temperatures sizzle. Its dry, extreme climate has much to do with the town’s success, where once ostrich farmers bathed in brandy and papered their walls in pound notes, when Oudtshoorn became known as the ostrich capital of the world.

It began when ostrich feathers became a major European and British fashion accessory in the mid-1800s. Oudtshoorn farmers were quick to realise that the Karoo environment was ideal to raise ostriches and began ripping up their agricultural fields and domesticating wild birds. Breeding pairs of birds thrived and farmers pocketed up to R200 per kilogram for their feathers, an astonishing amount in 1884.

Although the demand for ostrich feathers has drastically decreased, their skins are now used to produce high-end fashion accessories. Ostrich meat has become a popular alternative to beef or lamb. As a result, Oudtshoorn continues as an active ostrich farming town, boasting the largest number of ostriches in the world.

​​All my works are available as high quality prints on non-archival paper or on stretched canvas.
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Our South African aloes are in full bloom just now. This species, which has the common name 'coral aloe', is found widely across the Cape on rocky slopes and in the semi-arid Karoo area.​ The Coral aloe's species name, "striata", means "stripes", and refers to the long lines (sometimes very faint) on its blue-green leaves.

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Cotyledon arbiculata is widespread throughout South Africa, but is usually confined to rocky outcrops in grassland, fynbos and karoo regions. It’s also a widely grown garden plant and now, everywhere you look, it’s in glorious full flower.
The name pig's ears is derived from the oval shape of the grey-green leaves. The brightly coloured flowers attract bees and birds, which feed on the nectar of the plant.
It is a well-known medicinal plant. The fleshy part of the leaf is applied by many South Africans to soften and remove hard corns and warts. The heated leaf is used as a poultice for boils and other accessible inflammations, earache in particular. The Southern Sotho use a dried leaf as a protective charm for an orphan child and as a plaything.

All my works are available as high quality prints on non-archival paper or on stretched canvas.
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SAVE THE RHINO!
World Rhino Day is on September 22 and celebrates all five species of rhino: Black, white, greater one-horned, Sumatran and Javan rhinos. World Rhino Day was first announced by WWF-South Africa in 2010.
It has since grown to become a global phenomenon, uniting NGOs, zoos, cause-related organizations, businesses, and concerned individuals from nearly every corner of the world.
You can find out more about the cause and even download some rhino tunes here 

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Next Saturday, the 21st of September is World Clean Up Day - a global social action project to clean up solid waste including all the debris which has accumulated in our oceans and which gets washed up on our beaches. South Africa's Clean Up and Recycle Week started this weekend in neighbourhoods, around water courses and beaches.

We have beautiful beaches all around the South African coastline, and with better awareness and on-going action, there's  hope that they will stay that way. For more information about environmental issues and initiatives visit - www.wessa.co.za

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