My wife loves walking around on the mountains behind our home amongst the fynbos, proteas and the stunning view across an area known as Ruens. She also loves finding the almost hidden flowers that most other mortals would trample on, or walk past without even noticing. This acrylic painting of yellow flowers is based on […]
Author: Bruce Andrew
On My Easel – Tractors in the Snow – 14th May 2018
I started out on this canvas two years ago. It’s life began as a thatch cottage in England! As it just wasn’t good enough it was scrapped. Then it was supposed to be a man under a streetlight! That didn’t work out either. So here it is, two green John Deere tractors out in the […]
On My Easel – Man Walking – May 2018
Man Walking This oil painting is almost completed. Needs a little bit of work on the top bend in the road and then it should be done. It is inspired by a demonstration painting by Irish artist Stephen Conway. He has an easy approach and is one of the few that I have seen who […]
Sold – Cape St. Blaize
Lighthouse – Cape St. Blaize This lovely work was commissioned for a holiday home in the popular coastal holiday town of Mossel Bay on the Western Cape South Coast. The lighthouse was commissioned in 1864 and is a square brick tower, painted white. It is 14.9 meters tall and the “focal point” is 73 meters […]
Hermanus Fyn Arts – 2018
Probably the benchmark of Fine Art Festivals in Africa. Join thousands of art lovers from around the country and enjoy myriad of styles, themes, mediums and the characters of the art world. All forms of human endeavour are covered in the 10 day festival. For more details of the 2018 festival see the relevant page […]
Art is not pretty
Art is not always about pretty things.It’s about who we are, what happenedto us, and how our lives are affected; Elizabeth BrounRetired Director of The Smithsonian American Art Museum That may be so, and it’s good that it is so. If it wasn’t then there would be no room for the expression of emotions, both […]
Benjamin Casiano on art
Don’t wait till I’m dead to buy my art. It’s cheaper today. Benjamin Casiano See what Elizabeth Broun and Picasso had to say about art I’m brave enough (or crazy enough, depending on your point of view) to tackle most challenges. You’re invited to send me your favourite photo […]
Imagination
“Everything you can imagine is real.” Pablo Picasso (1891 – 1973) “What you say old Benjamin?” “Picasso may have been good, or weird or whatever, but he could never paint me. There’s copyright on me. I’m one of a kind”The real Irish BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I’m brave enough (or crazy enough, depending on your point of […]
Claude Monet on painting
Other painters paint a bridge, a house, a boat, I want to paint the air that surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat – the beauty of light in which they exist.” – Claude Monet See what Benjamin Cassiano and David Livingstone have to say about art (and angels) I’m brave enough (or crazy enough, […]
On My Easel – Cape St. Blaize – April 2018
Almost completed portrayal of Cape St. Blaize Lighthouse in Mossel Bay, Western Cape. One of the projects we are busy with at Art By Bruce right now is a commission for a painting St. Blaize Lighthouse in the beautiful coastal town of Mossel Bay, Western Cape, South Africa. The lighthouse was built in 1864. It […]