Milkwood Artists
Artists exhibiting at Milkwood Framing and Gallery at Florina Place, Main Street during the Plett ARTS Festival.
David Wells
David Wells
High –fired Stoneware and Porcelain Ceramics.
Clays, glazes and pigments are all mixed from David’s own recipes, developed with over forty years of experience. Forms and decorations draw influence from the natural world, African and Oriental designs .All work is created using ancient pottery techniques established by the great masters.
David has been an apprentice of Sculptor Potter Charles Gothhard Jacobs, well known Cape Town Potter Hyme Raboniwitz and Gordons Bay Potter Brian Hayden. He has worked and exhibited in the USA for twelve years, selling from Canyon Road New Mexico and his own pottery in New Hampshire, where he belonged to the New Hampshire Guild of Craftsman.
Currently David works from his farm in the Bitou Valley, Plettenberg Bay. His pottery is situated off the R340, Wittedrift. Open seven days a week, visitors are absolutely welcome!
Tel: 082 3209 843 | Email: davidwells@vodamail.co.za
Elsabe Gray
Elsabè Gray
Elsabè was born in Kimberley and moved to Plettenberg Bay 15 years ago with her husband Rodney.
She has always enjoyed being creative and for many years, while living in Botswana, where she did pottery with Geraldine Hester.
Her interest in painting started there and when she came to live in Plettenberg Bay she joined Estelle Hartley’s art classes.
She was a great teacher that inspired and influenced her style of loose and abstract painting.
As an artist, “colour is our language”. (Estelle Hartley)
Halszka Covarr
Halszka Covarr
After completing a doctorate in Zoology and spending over a decade researching zebra in East and Southern Africa, Halszka Covarr now focuses on a unique style of wildlife drawing, intended to raise awareness around conservation.
Her first collection, Children and animals – a simple enjoyment, is inspired by her own children and her love of animals. This range of detailed pencil drawings looks to foster a simple appreciation of animals as they are. No ownership, petting or humanisation. Just an imaginative moment in pure friendship allowed by the innocence of youth.
Grevy’s Zebra is the first in her range, Lesser known endangered species. This charcoal on paper piece aims to highlight the plight of less charismatic species facing extinction.
Helen Mudge
Helen Mudge
Helen Mudge lives in Keurboomstrand, near Plettenberg Bay. Her medium is usually gouache and acrylic on card; she then has the painting printed in full colour on heavy textured paper, and then paints again over the top. This technique is quite original to her, and allows her to revisit her past paintings (which subjects are mostly very personal to her), and paint over them – sometimes changing the painting quite a lot, sometimes not so much. This over-painting makes the print an original work in its own right. She doesn’t sell her original work.
She enjoys the highly decorative and colourful work of Matisse.
She lives simply with an emphasis on the natural world around us and the importance of its continuation through care and education.
She has exhibited locally in the Garden Route, and currently has work showing at The Seven Arches Gallery in Prince Albert as well as the Milkwood Framing and Gallery in Plettenberg Bay.
Jaques De Bruyn
Jaques De Bruyn
Jaques De Bruyn (°1970, South Africa) grew up on the East Rand. After school and tertiary studies at the University of Pretoria he spent several years abroad, mostly in the UK and the Netherlands. He is married to Fleur, and for the past 8 years he has been living and working in the Garden Route.
His works represents the universal language of a ‘communal world’, his artworks references everyday objects and scenery as well as the hypothetical thought provoking world of the Inner-Self.
Jill Forbes
Jill Forbes
Jill was born in Johannesburg and has been passionate about art since her earliest memories.
Jill works in all mediums, acrylic, oil, pastel and watercolour as well as mixed media. Jill has attended many workshops with well-known S.A. artists over the years.
Jill’s art can be found in galleries and markets along the Garden Route. Her work sells to both International visitors and South Africans.
Jill lives and creates in Harkerville, Plettenberg Bay.
“It has been a wonderful journey of creative energy, therapy and discovery of expression using colour and all mediums.”
Martin de Kock
Martin de Kock
I was born in 1967 in South Africa to South African parents and mostly grew up in Pretoria (South Africa). My father (Johnny de Kock), is also an artist, I’m sure that it influenced me to also create art, not only by genetics. It seems I have always been destined to be an artist, my mother said I did not walk or talk much until I was nearly two, I just drew pictures and built sand castles when we came to Plett on holiday every year. I moved down to Plettenberg bay almost 6 years ago and I am thrilled to now call it home!
I studied graphic design at Pretoria Technicon (now TUT) and worked as a graphic designer for a number of years. I also had my own paint and paint-art company for nearly 20 years. I created art and exhibited in-between my “day jobs”, throughout the years.
My latest exhibitions include:
The White House, Plettenberg Bay, in January 2016, with two fellow artists – Elzabe Malan and Andre Naude.
Dec 2016 and July 2017, solo exhibitions at Milkwood Framing and Gallery in Plettenberg Bay. My art has been bought by people all over South Africa and the world, including the USA, Canada, Australia and Germany.
I was involved in various solo and group exhibitions in South Africa and France over the years, including Tina Skukan Gallery (Pretoria), Grand Provence (Franschhoek, and Upper Deck in Plettenberg bay). I also held solo exhibitions at the Association of Arts in Pretoria in 2010, 2012 and 2014. I was a finalist in the Sasol New Signature Art competition in 2009.
Phulani Liebenberg
Phulani Liebenberg
Phulani is a self-taught painter born and raised in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Her focus is mainly African inspired portraiture. Oil based, large scale paintings.
“I am drawn to the challenges of capturing the ‘life’ and emotion of the subject’s eyes. I love the process of breaking down the overall composition into the separate elements that harness human emotion, and how the smallest changes in each, affect the mood and feeling in my work. I see each subject as a synergy of intense complex aspects that perfectly capture and preserve emotion, expression, concern and wonder.”
Her paintings are her perspective of a beautiful continent and its people and the raw emotion that connects us all.
Tarryn Hatchett
Tarryn Hatchett
Tarryn started her creative journey by studying acting, but quickly realized she wanted to be more in control of her creative process – from the birth of a concept to its full execution. Always having been an obsessive creative and an avid painter, she eventually came into full-time photography just four years ago through her life-long love for cinema, and consequently visualizes her shoots in a cinematic style.
Capturing the essence of a person through portraiture, and exploring ideas of character and identity is what she loves about the craft. Tarryn specializes in portraiture and loves the challenge of exploring a person’s essence in a few still frames. Her fashion photography is tender but edgy with a sense of humour.
Tarryn’s work has been exhibited around the world and she was one chosen as one of Adobe’s 10 rising stars in photography in 2017.
“I am in love with the medium of photography as a means to relive beautiful moments long after they are done.”
Terry Du Plessis
Terry Du Plessis
Terry was born in Oudtshoorn in SA. Terry has no formal art training. As a physiotherapist in JHB she treated an artist with whom she then started taking art classes as a hobby about 25 years ago. She then moved to Plettenberg Bay and still travels to Mossel Bay twice a month to enjoy classes with her original art teacher.
She is a member of the Plettenberg Bay Arts Association. Terry has sold her art at exhibitions in JHB, through the art gallery at Global Village and by taking on commissions. Terry loves creating and enjoys the proceeds she enjoys from her art spending it on other refined pleasures, namely good food and wine!
“I always say that I am not an artist, but a painter! I love slapping thick layers of colour onto the canvas! It frees the mind from the stresses of everyday living.”
