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Pieter A. Pienaar
May 21, 20201 min read
"My blue is not your blue" (Post 16)
About 25 years ago I created an abstract piece which was lovely to me, but it was clearly not the taste of a pair passing by. I laughed...
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Pieter A. Pienaar
May 20, 20202 min read
"Good-bye is better in a song" (Post 15)
For the last two days I have been working on a song to say good-bye to Jeddah, a place that I admired and praised with many art works I...
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Pieter A. Pienaar
May 19, 20201 min read
"We need earthy tones" (Post 14)
More than two decades ago I did large abstractions on canvas and these you could call my "doodling" phase. I included a "crop" of such a...
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Pieter A. Pienaar
May 17, 20201 min read
"Blisseria" (Post 13)
Sometimes we need a break from all the things that (want to) annoy and "destroy" us. Let us plan an escape to a place where fantasy makes...
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Pieter A. Pienaar
May 17, 20201 min read
"Living in the temple of nature" (Post 12)
Somewhere in a little devotional book which I bought on a sale years ago was a photo and underneath it was a sentence that went something...
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Pieter A. Pienaar
May 16, 20201 min read
"Still life with papaya" (Post 11)
If only we knew or could know that something we create would sell well, then we could prepare a crate full of those items or paintings...
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Pieter A. Pienaar
May 15, 20201 min read
"Poetry in motion" (Post 10)
I looked at my collection of images this morning in order to find something to blog about. I stumbled upon a painting I made in 2009...
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Pieter A. Pienaar
May 14, 20202 min read
"I painted your future" (Post 9)
In 1996 a pastor prayed for me while I was attending a small group meeting and his prayer was rather strange. He told me of things to...
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Pieter A. Pienaar
May 13, 20202 min read
"Candy Mountain" (Post 8)
I joined a group of friends who enjoyed hiking in the rocky parts of the desert in Saudi Arabia one Friday in 2013. I am not particularly...
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Pieter A. Pienaar
May 12, 20201 min read
"A painting for the Fire Engineering department" (Post 7)
When I was living in Pretoria, South Africa, I exhibited my abstract paintings alongside other hobby artists at the monthly...
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Pieter A. Pienaar
May 11, 20201 min read
"The colours of a Chinese spring" (Post 6)
Two years ago, as I was coming to the end of my teaching contract in Wuhan, China, spring time surprised me. I had to take my camera; I...
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Pieter A. Pienaar
May 10, 20201 min read
"Wonder" (Post 5)
This afternoon I heard the bad news that my friend was fired, with no prior warnings. The reasons for the company's decision are not...
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Pieter A. Pienaar
May 9, 20202 min read
"Joy" (Post 4)
Why do we try to compare ourselves to others when there are so many factors at play which we cannot see or understand? We have different...
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Pieter A. Pienaar
May 8, 20201 min read
"Measure the power of a butterfly" (Post 3)
Today I had to face the sun outside because the mopped floors had to dry. Luckily I could dodge the powerful Saudi sun because I had an...
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Pieter A. Pienaar
May 7, 20202 min read
"Awakening" (Post 2)
I think, every time anyone of us starts a process, the desire to see it completed speedily could be foremost in our "upper storey"....
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Pieter A. Pienaar
May 6, 20202 min read
Frustrated but hopefully not outdated (yet)!
Today I feel frustrated, hopeful, sad, happy, dull and colourful. Three years ago I bought this website and I added about 50% of the...
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Pieter A. Pienaar
May 6, 20201 min read
Now You Can Blog from Everywhere!
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Pieter A. Pienaar
May 6, 20201 min read
Design a Stunning Blog
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Pieter A. Pienaar
May 6, 20201 min read
Grow Your Blog Community
With Wix Blog, you’re not only sharing your voice with the world, you can also grow an active online community. That’s why the Wix blog...
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