settled in the lovely Kent countryside in the UK.
I love everything meaningful and beautiful,
which I try to capture in different media.
My inspiration for all of this: the people that I love,
and the love that God has for me.
Ek deel graag met jou die vreugdes van dit
wat mooi en betekenisvol is.
Stap
Writing
Creating pictures with words & building it into stories
Arts and Crafts
Creating with lines, shapes, colours & textures
Sketchbook
Painting
Embroidery
Series 13
Cooking
This is about imagining, preparing, serving & enjoying food can always be a feast.
Elsa Schiaparelli once said: A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
Blog
Kittyhawk in the sights
Our hero was raised on a farm and had little training as a soldier seeing that he was an army cook. Thus, within the first few days of being on the battlefront, he noticed a German plane in hot pursuit of an Allied Kittyhawk and grabbed his gun. Needless...
read moreAbout designer shoes and Oscars
While on holiday in the lovely Cape, my dear friend Esthie decided to buy me a pair of shoes, to symbolise the beautiful feet of “a messenger who announces peace, a messenger who brings good news, who announces deliverance...” NET Bible I needed black low-heeled shoes...
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Battlefront Cook in Egypt and Italy
Like a veritable Indiana Jones, Danie had to be enormously practical and resourceful – as a cook in North African desert field kitchens, in the POW camp kitchens of Benghazi, Sardinia and Italy, as a foraging escapee in the hills of Tuscany, and as a...
read moreCook in training
Our young hero learning to feed the forces at the Pretoria Police College - peeling a mountain of potatoes, making notes, AND finding time to take the love of his life to the Burgers Park in Pretoria. Coming from a family of 14 children, Danie had a knack...
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Kintsukuroi – the wonder of healing
Kintsugi (金継ぎ?, きんつぎ, "golden joinery"), also known as Kintsukuroi (金繕い?, きんつくろい, "golden repair"),[1] is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, a method similar to the maki-e...
read moreOefenlopie in Windhoek
Die jong konstabel, Danie de Jager, in die kookspan in Windhoek - min wetende dat hy hierdie vaardighede sou toepas in die skeepskombuis onderweg na Alexandrië, in die veldkombuis in die woestyn van Noord-Afrika, in die krygsgevangekampe van Benghazi en...
read moreKospotte van Egipte en Italië: Pa se storie sien uiteindelik die lig!
Die boeiende storie van 'n boerseun wat tydens die Tweede Wêreldoorlog diens doen as kok: Kleintyd sonder televisie was ‘n groot seën vir my pa se sewe kinders - wanneer die gier hom gepak het en hy begin oorlogstories vertel het, het ons aan sy lippe...
read moreA year’s worth of mini paintings – Day 3
Day 3 and we are visiting our children in sunny South Africa. What other subject to paint than this delightful little girl who came to work with her mother - especially to meet the visiting ugogo (grandmother) Of course Trisha was never going to sit for a...
read moreA year’s worth of mini paintings: Day 2
Day 2: Painting miniatures was still very new to me. Here I tried an approximately 10x10cm pencil sketch on handmade paper. The subject: a sleeping warthog, seeing that I was in the South African Bushveld and found this an unusual take on a well-known...
read moreA year’s worth of mini paintings: Day 1
I started on my birthday, 9 February 2016, with a challenge to produce one miniature painting per day for a year... Seeing that 2016 is a leap year, that means 366 mini paintings. The traditional miniature painting size is about 10x10cm, and portraits...
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