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Strength through Perseverance

Vivien Budge COUNTRY: South Africa ARTWORK MEDIUM: Watercolor ARTWORK SIZE: 40 x 30cm DETAILS: I painted Oti Mabuse when she sat for Portrait Artist of the Week in March this year. I love and admire her positive energy, her strength and perseverance and her unfailing hope and ongoing hard work towards making the world a […]

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After the Storm

Marian Mattinson COUNTRY: South Africa ARTWORK MEDIUM: Watercolor ARTWORK SIZE: 16x26cm DETAILS: ‘After the Storm’ I was thrilled to have captured the serenity of this scene using a wet on wet technique, which I am still learning.

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Road Less Travelled

Marian Mattinson COUNTRY: South Africa ARTWORK MEDIUM: Acrylic ARTWORK SIZE: 13x18cm DETAILS: ‘Road Less Travelled’ (Painted on Watercolour paper) A trip to Kruger National Park in South Africa is “Food for the Soul”. This less travelled road is near Punda Maria in the north of Kruger. I am extremely grateful that Shelley, my eldest daughter, […]

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The Tattered Flag, A Dream of Time

Naseema Barday COUNTRY: South Africa ARTWORK MEDIUM: Watercolor ARTWORK SIZE: 24 X 32 cm DETAILS: Online image purchased for reference, based upon an idea that spoke to me. The layers on the walls that have been repeatedly renovated with the fresh feeling each time reflect the cycles of renewed hope that we as humans experience […]

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Coffee for two

Shelley Mattinson COUNTRY: South Africa ARTWORK MEDIUM: Watercolor ARTWORK SIZE: 30 x 20cm DETAILS: Ahh…thank you Lord…we can still have coffee in small groups, there is hope! “Coffee for two” is a still life artwork created using coffee as a medium but treated as watercolour. A first for me. A little sticky but once ‘fixed’ […]

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My Daily Bread

Shelley Mattinson COUNTRY: South Africa ARTWORK MEDIUM: Watercolor ARTWORK SIZE: 9,5 x 14,5cm DETAILS: ‘My Daily Bread’ was done en plein air on the banks (in the backseat of a Subaru) of Sunset Dam in the Kruger National Park. Using the medium Liquid Charcoal as watercolour, the aim was to capture the heron eyeing out […]

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Rose Perfection

Ina Millman COUNTRY: South Africa ARTWORK MEDIUM: Watercolor ARTWORK SIZE: 30 x 21 cm DETAILS: I photographed this rose, which was the winning bloom, at the Rose Festival in Wakkerstroom. I used only transparent watercolour to paint it.

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Field of Flowers

Janeen Du Toit COUNTRY: South Africa ARTWORK MEDIUM: Watercolor ARTWORK SIZE: 46 x 45 cms DETAILS: As long as we have growth, in the form of plants, trees, etc. There is always hope for the future!

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Layla

Joseph Donnelly COUNTRY: South Africa ARTWORK MEDIUM: Watercolor ARTWORK SIZE: 29.7X42 CM DETAILS: Painting from my own photo great grand daughter Layla

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Daisy hoping for a Mouse

Janeen Du Toit COUNTRY: South Africa ARTWORK MEDIUM: Watercolor ARTWORK SIZE: 32 x 21 cms DETAILS: It’s a portrait of a friend’s cat Daisy. I painted it from her photo and put the kitty in an imaginery daisy field.

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Getting there

Margaret Crossman COUNTRY: South Africa ARTWORK MEDIUM: Acrylic ARTWORK SIZE: 61 x 51 DETAILS: I have done a few of paintings like this = similar railway lines in different settings. The picture was inspired by an image from the internet at least 20 yrs ago. I can no longer find it.

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The Drought Breaks

Taryn Laing-Cox COUNTRY: South Africa ARTWORK MEDIUM: Watercolor ARTWORK SIZE: 40 x27cm

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Expressions of hope reawakening

Naomi Lichtenstein COUNTRY: South Africa ARTWORK MEDIUM: Watercolor ARTWORK SIZE: A3 DETAILS: Modernised version expressions of hope

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Green & Gold Hope for South Africa

Wendy Pretorius COUNTRY: South Africa ARTWORK MEDIUM: Watercolor ARTWORK SIZE: 34X30cm

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Forest walk II

Cathy Fourie COUNTRY: South Africa ARTWORK MEDIUM: Watercolor ARTWORK SIZE: 30 x 20cm DETAILS: Watercolour with some acrylic ink and watersoluble colour pencils on Bockingford 300g CP paper

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Forest walk I

Cathy Fourie COUNTRY: South Africa ARTWORK MEDIUM: Watercolor ARTWORK SIZE: 30 x 20cm DETAILS: Watercolour with acrylic ink and watersoluble colour pencils on Bockingford 300g CP paper.

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Barefoot innocence

Willemien Burger COUNTRY: RSA ARTWORK MEDIUM: Watercolor ARTWORK SIZE: 19cm x 27cm DETAILS: Image: Pixabay A4 Hot pressed 300gsm paper, stretched

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Beauty in the small things

Willemien Burger COUNTRY: RSA ARTWORK MEDIUM: Watercolor ARTWORK SIZE: 12.5cm x 19cm DETAILS: Image: Pixabay Painted on A5, 300gsm hot-pressed, stretched watercolor paper

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Looking to the future

Ianthe Hudson COUNTRY: South Africa ARTWORK MEDIUM: Watercolor ARTWORK SIZE: 21cm x 30cm DETAILS: A painting of my granddaughter.

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Orange dahlia

Ianthe Hudson COUNTRY: South Africa ARTWORK MEDIUM: Watercolor ARTWORK SIZE: 52cm x 52cm DETAILS: An outside painting of a dahlia from my garden, which depicts hope from appearing each year in spring and disappearing in winter.