Art is all around us

Art doesn’t have hang in a quiet gallery somewhere. Art is all around us. My city, Johannesburg, is an urban gallery and the exhibits change constantly. The purple collection is on view for a limited time only. Jacaranda trees in their short sweet season of lilac bloom and the blue Agapanthus are all bursting into…

Caring makes the difference …

As promised – a post about a talking painting and a different kind of service … So we decided to visit the little country town of Wakkerstroom in Mpumalanga for the long weekend of the 9th August 2013. What a quaint little dorpie (village) similar in character to Rhodes in the Eastern Cape. Wakkerstroom is home…

Every picture tells a story …

Last weekend, I visited  a well – known Lifestyle Centre close to where I stay.  The displays in the nursery and gift shop are always uplifting: beautifully and tastefully done. There I spotted a painting that spoke to me. It told me two things.  The painting whispered suggestively that it would be good for me…