Baardskeerdersbos Art Route

 She is concerned with "fragile balances" , both in ecosystems and the human condition, and uses whatever is at hand - be it paint, stone, bone, the written word, the landscape or woven recycled fynbos - to express herself.

She welcomes visitors to her studio and runs land art workshops.

 I recently had the good fortune to be artist-in-residence in Andrée's Baardskeerdersbos Art Studio. What an amazing experience! I was totally inspired by the gentle and remote environment, the march blooms, overblown king protea and a rare leopard toad...

 In my artistic exploration, I work with the most ethereal of substances - light - to express inner states of being. I am subject matter and documenter, voyeur and participator. 

As the subject, I am utterly focused on being present in my body. As documenter I am outside of my body, using my mind to measure, calculate and predict. I am insider and outsider. When I find balance in this place of contradiction, something extraordinary takes place.

 My images are created directly in the camera with long exposures. There is no reconstruction. It excites me to work within the presence of the moment. I play with telling stories in space. I keep the props I use to an absolute minimum. I use the honesty of nakedness as the body does not lie.

 Paul Klee wrote in his Creative Credo, “Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.”