Pieter A. Pienaar

The Indian mystic Osho said, “To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you...

Today I felt a bit overwhelmed; there are so many ideas in my head that I want to process and express. However, we all know that only one...

Six years ago, I ventured into a location with my camera and I asked almost everyone I could find if I could please borrow their...

I am contemplating doing a series of still lives in the near future – if God grants me life. The way I paint still lives is a bit of a...

Robert Black said, “The popularity of abstract art is easily explained, when you consider all art represents reality, and mystery is part...

As artists we are often rather scared to use the colour gold in our works. We are all familiar with the beautiful church icons and the...

A few years ago, I made a series of experiments to see if I would not discover a few new techniques. I had some fun but I never intended...

When I am working with watercolour or “watery” media I always feel a little apprehensive, because deep down I know that I am not...

I had just started my teaching career. It was 1991 more or less and I decided to participate in the annual exhibition arranged by the...

Last night I spent some time with friends and they showed me their photos of their 2015 trip to France. They spent time in Saint-Rémy and...

Over the course of the last few weeks I visited a few shopping malls. I targeted art galleries and décor shops in particular, because...

I was wondering what I would blog about today. I turned on my computer and I looked at my e-mails first. I was surprised by the...

Today I want to speak about my Biblical journey with pen an ink illustration. I suppose, if someone had told me more than 25 years ago...

Yesterday a new friend came to view my Journey with Jeddah picture book and he stopped paging when he came upon the watercolour section...

There are days or weeks when I just don’t feel like making "serious" traditional works. During those periods I turn to abstraction and I...

Yesterday, I paid an artist friend a quick visit and she showed me her collection of works which she still intends to sell, as we were...

When I was a student, I wanted to participate in a (friendly) group show and I submitted a few works. The work which I included here,...

I decided to create a series of abstracts in September 2019 and I deliberately decided to use differently shaped canvases, simply because...

I am using text from my Journey with Jeddah book, which I trust the reader may enjoy. The extract is taken form the Portraits with ink...

As creatives we may often become a bit hesitant to start another big work; we know what awaits us. Why shall we not take a break from...