2022 Owl Artists

Jasmine Jagger
Jasmine Jagger

Jasmine, is an expressionistic painter, sculptor, and ceramicist living in Cape Town, South Africa.
With no formal training. She began her journey into art when she was scouted and commissioned for her ceramic work in 2015 by Artist and Former owner of Zulu Lulu art gallery, Trayci Tompkins, Jasmine after 16 years of not painting, created a body of work that began at the end of 2019 into 2020. The works propelled her into the art world. With a commission piece for Sotheby’s real estate campaign in honor of Women’s month 2020, a group exhibition “Pop-up” at the Forge Gallery in Cape Town, A solo Exhibition at the Alliance Françoise “What I learned from the mirror” a second Solo with Candice Berman Gallery “Jagged” by 2021.
Followed by a group expo “Colour punch” with Candice Berman Gallery in 2022 and a third Solo exhibition “Broken pieces of hard things” with Candice Berman Gallery in 2022. Jasmine focusses on reading between the lines within her daily life, be it past and present encounters she has with friends and family and very rarely strangers. Her works attribute to getting to know and experience different aspects of people and human nature, through behaviors she is witness to.
In learning how to let go of barriers, Jasmine is able to tap into a wealth of personal imagery motivated by thoughts and experiences, finding influence in the intricacies of her daily life. Her distinctive and personal style is reflective in her use of contrasting colours and bold compositions. Imagery that pays homage to the conscious and subconscious thought of the human mind.
Jasmine is compelled to create art using striking colours and loud imagery for the sake of losing herself in an intense desire for comfort and solace in what she can only describe as an “organic, cathartic experience’:
Web: Jasminejagger.com
Insta: Jasminejaggerart
Twitter: JasminejaggArt

Dalingcebo Ngubane
Dalingcebo Ngubane

(b, 1997, Kwa-Ngwanase, South Africa)
I am a self-taught visual artist based in Johannesburg South Africa. My work interrogates emotion in relation to contemporary life. Most of the influence for my work draws from people I meet and how they experience life and the stories they tell others and themselves. I use body language as a core element in my work in an attempt to capture the emotional state of people as they go about their lives.
These days everything is fleeting, conjuring these feelings of stagnancy or sometimes unrelenting rapidity. My practice sometimes is but finding some sort of balance between motion and fluidity of life that we lose ourselves in and static contemplation that draws us back into ourselves.
I try to show this through figurative painting because I think it enables me to show action and motion all without extreme deliberation. I think humans, through race, class, gender and other forms of social identity are always in competition for time and space throughout their existence. I always try to give that space to different characters. Through this I end up with an intersection of bodies that from time to time represents interpersonal relationships that shape our lives so profoundly.
When I start drawing or painting it feels like this contention between will and the medium. I paint as I have approached life with no particular final destination in mind, allowing myself to get lost, allowing for accident and luck to shape the final image.
I am inspired by artists including Banele Khoza, Francis Bacon, Justice Mukheli and George Condo.
Education
2014 – 2020: Master of Science – University of the Witwatersrand
Exhibitions
2018: GCRO Urban Gaze competition finalist – Keyes Art Gallery

Sarah Grace
Sarah Grace

1990 – Sarah Grace was born in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) and schooled by artist parents Janine & George Holloway.
She worked part-time for diverse artists from a young age, including Jane du Rand, Richard Hart, Roger Jardine, Andries Botha, Pascale Chandler & Neil Coppen. 2015-2016 – Sarah moved to Joburg in order to focus on creating art full time And shortly after, became assistant Artist to Mandy Coppes-Martin for 6 months. Sarah took a studio in Nugget Square Studios alongside artists, George Holloway, Gordon Froud, Mandy Coppes-Martin, Vivien Kohler, Louis Olivier and Nandipha Mntambo. 2016 – 2017 – Sarah joined Hzrd Gallery for a 10 month residency with mentor Jonathan Freemantle, culminating in a group show alongside artists such as, Ledelle Moe, Alice Edy, Sophia Van Wyk, Talia Goldsmith, Jojo Abot, Lucy Turpin. 2017 -2018 – Sarah took part in a program with Jonathan Freemantle called “The Villa” – a shared studio space in an abandoned mansion – it culminated in a group show in October 2018 alongside Givan Lotz, Michele Mathison, Lucy Turpin, Jacob van Schalkwyk, Marc Edwards, Dokter and Misses, Brett Rubin, Io Makandal, Jake Singer & David Brits.
On the 1st of March 2018 Sarah had her first solo exhibition with Priest Gallery.
2018 -2019 – Sarah was part of a group show on Turbine Art Fair under Priest Gallery curated by Wayne Matthews. Sarah joined Priest Gallery in September 2018 as a guest curator for her first curated exhibition featuring Mandy Coppes-Martin, Vivien Kohler, Gordon Froud, Jayne Crawshay-Hall, Maaike Bakker, Nico Ras, George Holloway, Gina Waldman, Ilene Bothma, Neil Nieuwoudt, Stephan Erasmus, Dirk Bahmann, Shenaz Mahomed, Mark Rautenbach & Britt Lawton. The exhibition opened on 4th April 2019 and was extremely well received.
In March 2019 it was announced that Sarah was a finalist in the Emerging Painting Invitational (EPI) and took part in the group show held in Harare at First Floor Gallery. 2020 – Sarah started the year with a solo exhibition titled ‘Stolen From A Dream’ at Candice Berman Fine Art Gallery.
She partnered up with iStore South Africa to run a series of virtual iStore Meets workshops on abstract sketching during lockdown. Sarah released her ‘Lockdown Series’ and ‘Autumn Playground’ paintings online during the COVID-19 lockdown. 2021 – Sarah moved to the Amathole mountains to have her first child Stevie Grace. During her pregnancy she created a body of work titled ‘Ancient Sunlight’ which she exhibited at Candice Berman Gallery in September 2021.
2022 – Sarah’s first year of motherhood. She created a smaller body of work titled ‘Sacred Wild’ which will be available to view through Candice Berman Gallery November 2022.

John Vusi Mfupi
John Vusi Mfupi

My work portrays celebration of youth and mobility; dealing with human life matters that affect people globally. My style has developed into the well known up cycled collage technique, not only is this technique an efficient means of production as an artist living in a small space, the materials also play vital a role in portraying my concepts.
I majored in painting at third year and after graduating discovered artist’s need space, not only work space, but also for storage. My solution was to replace paint with magazines.
My comments on the solution, “Canvases are bulky, paper collages can be packed flat and easily stored. With collages, I’d make 20 or more artworks and stash them under my bed. I was only a couple of years out of the college, and it was tough getting going. I had no space and had to buy art materials; I started using magazines because the only thing I needed was colour.”
With firm belief it takes bravery to be an artist in South Africa and I enjoy sharing creative experiences and skills with youth. Whilst painting murals with school children, issues such as; language, teenage pregnancy, drugs, alcohol and HIV/AIDS are dealt with.
In dealing with such issues I believe one does not have to utilise traditional Fine Art media. On the contrary my use of recycled materials plays a strong role in my concepts. Found materials such as burnt newspaper, found objects and pigments are combined to form an emotive reaction to my daily context. We find South African context surrounding this response, as it reflects physical materials and creates the generated energy of the artworks. The result is an authentic visual language that supports the notion of wall mounted art as well as raises our responsiveness of intrinsic aesthetic qualities of ordinary materials. I have a strong passion for encouraging young people to be artistic, art is not only about traditional materials it is also about making use of raw easily accessible materials.
I got involved in a public art initiative to shape the look and feel of the new Metro Mall and Faraday development, a flagship project for inner city renewal in Bree Street and Faraday Taxi rank. In 2004, I was once more fortunate to be selected to represent my beloved South Africa in Madeira, Portugal to paint a 2,5m high * 32m long mural that formed part of South Africa’s 10 years of democracy across the globe.
Again in 2005 I was part of the 25 artists around the country who went to Malaysia for the Delphic Games.
In 2006 we flew to Cape Town to attend the VANSA Conference which was attended by the big shorts of the art world.
In 2008 I went to Scotland where we gathered as artists from all the Room 13 around the world. It was the first International summer schools for all the Room 13 artists. The aim was to grow this project so that it reaches all those disadvantaged schools and to instil the love of the arts to our communities.
In 2012, I went to Argentina for a solo exhibition invited by the South African Embassy. As we will always say whenever we pray, ‘Our Father who ART in Heaven’, or ‘How Great is thou ART’. It is my duty as an artist to get people involved in art, especially the young ones.
I have rendered my services to 25 schools around Gauteng teaching art and painting murals with the learners.
Facebook : John Vusi Mfupi
Instagram : john.vusi.mfupi

Chantelle Hopewell
Chantelle Hopewell

Duende (n.) the mysterious power of art to deeply move a person Chantelle Hopewell is a multidisciplinary artist and designer living in Hout Bay, Cape Town. She creates art to express and communicate her thoughts and feelings that emerge from connecting with the abundance of nature that surrounds her. She invites the viewer to explore and discover the meaning and significance of her work, and hopes that in doing so they will be inspired to look at the world differently.
Her most recent work is ink based. In her process she use fast-drying, highly pigmented, alcohol-based inks which have flexible, free flowing and impressionistic qualities. This movement and the unpredictability of the medium enhances her expression of the subject matter.
Her work is showcased both commercially and privately. Large scale commissions can be seen in hotels in South Africa and Zanzibar, as well as in private collections around the world.
Website: saltwaterstudio.co.za
Instagram: chantelle.hopewell
“My owl, Athena, is the goddess of wisdom, all knowing and all seeing.
When the owl wings its way into your life it gives you new eyes to look into the past, present and future with uncanny accuracy.”
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
Henry David Thoreau

Susan Proctor Hume
Susan Proctor Hume

Susan is a polemical and conceptual artist who is self-taught and started her art career in 2014. Her preferred mediums are ceramic, paper collage, oils, and oil stick. Her work has been exhibited and is collected in USA, UK, France, SA, Australia, Germany & Holland.

Susan Proctor Hume
Susan Proctor Hume

Susan is a polemical and conceptual artist who is self-taught and started her art career in 2014. Her preferred mediums are ceramic, paper collage, oils, and oil stick. Her work has been exhibited and is collected in USA, UK, France, SA, Australia, Germany & Holland.

Susan Proctor Hume
Susan Proctor Hume

Susan is a polemical and conceptual artist who is self-taught and started her art career in 2014. Her preferred mediums are ceramic, paper collage, oils, and oil stick. Her work has been exhibited and is collected in USA, UK, France, SA, Australia, Germany & Holland.

Laurel Holmes
Laurel Holmes

Laurel began working as a fulltime artist in 2012 and is currently completing a Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art at Michaelis, UCT.
Her work is driven by a fascination and deep concern with the natural world –its intuitive intelligence, richness, and beauty.

Kim Black
Kim Black
Kim Black is a painter with a fascination with colour, florals and interiors, and this is the constant inspiration behind her relentless creating.

Madeleine van Manen
Madeleine van Manen

MADELEINE VAN MANEN (1966 – )
Madeleine van Manen paints in various mediums, ranging from oils to gouache and pastel, mixed medium and printmaking.
After graduating with a Diploma in Fine Art (Painting) from the Port Elizabeth Technikon (now Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University) in 1988, she spent many years working as a graphic designer in the printing industry and at an educational institution, after which she moved to Cape Town and worked in the advertising industry.
In 2009 she was able to focus on painting again when she mbriefly lived in Pretoria. Returning to Cape Town in 2012, Madeleine now works as a full-time artist from her studio in the city centre and is also an art teacher at the Lycée Français du Cap. She is a painter and printmaker who currently works with two main themes, namely cityscapes and forest scenes. Van Manen moved into her inner-city studio on a busy street in Cape Town in 2018, where her large windows present views of city buildings and a large part of Table Mountain.
The references for her current cityscapes include the views from her studio window, thus created in situ. Her purpose is to not replicate an image in all its detail. She responds to her city environment and her trips into the mountains through personal reflection and emphasis on the mood of a moment. By eliminating elements that she deems non-essential, she creates images of silence where you would expect noise, leading to a feeling of isolation and solitude, seemingly contradictory, yet easily felt in a large and busy metropolis. You will find no entourage in her paintings, only the fundamental information she deems of purpose for a specific composition. Seeking out details that only peak for a moment, a complex image is constructed after significant editing.
Van Manen approaches her landscape and forest paintings with the same sense – of the silence of forests easily associated with serenity and isolation. Creating from the concept of momentary glances, Van Manen works with colour in a minimalistic way, in order to seek and inspire that sense of stillness.
Contact details: Cell: 079 541 8223
Email: nositsherlock@gmail.com
Website: www.madeleinevanmanen.art
IG: @madeleinevanmanen

Siyabonga Mlambi
Siyabonga Mlambi

Almost love at first sight, Siyabonga became smitten with art as a child and by the time he finished High School it was a full-blown love affair. While in college he studied art and design. He focused his attention on the natural and various colour palettes. Upon graduating, his mediums of choice became acrylic, fabric, stones, grass, found materials, ink and graphite. His choice of medium is a defining characteristic of his art style. As his artistic skill-set matured, he began experimenting with various styles and techniques. This ultimately led him to discover a style that would later become his signature. Siyabonga identifies his style as Khanda-Art Superblur African Synthetic Cubism. The style entertains the viewer with beauty and desire that the eye cannot see but only the heart can feel. The development of Khanda-Art can be found in the definition of Khanda.
This term is of Nguni-origin. It can be understood as the process creating something from scratch. More specifically, the process of moulding and development to create something of intrinsic value. This art movement is the child of a universe whose roots have a stronghold in (South) Africa. The aim and desire of Khanda-Art, specifically, is to entertain the viewer with beauty that encourages your imagination to flow and push-boundaries beyond your wildest expectations. Siyabonga uses, what he identifies as, the basic and fundamental elements of life. These can be understood as lines, shapes, colour and texture.
The focus on lines in Siyabonga’s work is emphasized because he believes that these are “like veins that gives life to the artwork”. Furthermore, lines depict motion around his colourful characters and connect one to another. This then symbolizes the concepts of unity, respect and above all love. Positivity is a recurrent and central theme in Siyabonga’s collection of works.

John Bauer
John Bauer
John Bauer is a South African ceramicist with work in two national museums, who exhibits widely both locally and abroad.
He is best known for his challenging and unique neurology that creates fertile ground for innovation. He redefines the boundaries and possibilities of porcelain, like reverse engineering a Tsung Dynasty technology, or inventing a printing technology on porcelain coined “dioroid” which works with a responsive emulsion infused in the body of the clay to capture images of ambient objects.
He currently tiles buildings in kaleidoscopic matchbox tiles, each one unique, dubbed “people’s museums”.

Lowe (Beth Lowe)
Lowe (Beth Lowe)

Beth is a plein air painter working from life, trying to capture the essence of the moment and light.

McAlpine (Beth McAlpine)
McAlpine (Beth McAlpine)

Beth McAlpine
Multi-media artist/Printmaker
Bethmcalpineart.com
0833452538
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand in awe is as good as dead – his eyes are closed”
Albert Einstein
Artist Statement
Over the years Beth has experimented with watercolour, oil, mixed media and etchings. Her explorations in a wide variety of mediums led her to working under the tutelage of Greg Kerr for a number of years with oils being the primary medium, until she discovered the brilliance of mono printing thanks to the guidance and teaching of Elaine Hirschowitz (psychoanalyst and occupational therapist, divorce mediator and an extremely talented printmaker) at Artists Print Studio in Lower Houghton which is still her creative home in Johannesburg.
From there and at other studios, she combines her love of facilitation and run workshops whenever she can. In 2020/21 she ran some workshops in conjunction with Prof Kim Berman.
Over the last few years, she has exhibited at a variety of group and solo exhibitions. Her work has sold at the Turbine Art Fair and Joburg Art Fair. She has had many solo exhibitions as well as participating in Artist Print Studio group exhibitions. I frequently fulfil commissions from clients in the U.K. Spain, Italy, U.S.A. and New Zealand.
Her most recent solo exhibition in 2019 was in partnership with the Painted Wolf Foundation.
She is an artist concerned with the natural world, with connection especially to animals and their roles in our lives, that concern is also for endangered species of wildlife, such as Pangolins, Wild dogs, chimps, and elephant and giraffe – and others which are nearing extinction. Some of these animals are vilified – and misunderstood. Explorations this year will be around our relationships to them.
This year she has had the privilege of joining The Printing Girls – which is a collaborative group of women in South Africa supporting each other in our love of art. This led to her exhibiting a number of times with them and also, with Rabbit Productions a studio in Fordsburg in 2022.

Theo Paul Vorster
Theo Paul Vorster

Theo Paul Vorster currently resides in Cape Town South Africa.
Theo is known for creating unique pieces of art with lively line work, vibrant colors. His work ultimately transports viewers into an energized dimension. Theo started with art classes at school and ended up enrolling for BA Graphic design at the University of Stellenbosch with printmaking as his main subject. Theo is a fulltime artist. He has had many successful solo and group exhibitions. He originally focused on etching but in 2006 he started looking at other methods and turned to Lino. He loves the three-dimensional quality of carving into Lino. As the print is black and white it also allows him to experiment with color. He now mostly work with Lino. The Lino block is cut and printed by hand on 285g Fabriano paper. All prints are individually hand colored by Theo with acrylic ink. Theo keeps the print edition low and only prints 10, 15 or a maximum of 20. All works are printed prior to an exhibition as the
Lino block is painted in oil and sold once the edition has been printed. Theo also produces monotypes, woodcuts, serigraphs and accepts commissions. He has been commissioned by several Corporates in South Africa to conceptualize unique artworks for them for different art and marketing projects. He is a keen teacher and has regular one day lino and monotype workshops @ his Studio in Bellville.
Website : www.theopaulvorster.com
Exhibitions Highlights last 5 years.
2016 – Solo exhibition – South African Print Gallery, Woodstock, Cape Town
2016 – Mono/Lino exhibition Clare, Jono, Theo and friends with Clare Menck, Jonathan
Comerford and Theo Paul Vorster.
2017 – Cape Town art fair represented by The South African Printing Gallery
2018 – K9 Re-worked – Solo Exhibition @ RK Contemporary, Riebeeck Kasteel
2018 – K 9 Re-worked cont. – Print exhibition @ Rust & Vrede Art Gallery Durbanville
2019 – Turbine Art Fair JHB with South African Printing Gallery – New work
2019 – Inside Out – Collaboration with Spanish artist Emilio Meningbar @ Mok Gallery,
Stellenbosch
2020 – Roer en Kraak – Solo exhibition for US Toyota Woordfees.
2020 – Pop Up Solo Exhibition Lino and Acrylic Ink @ Diemersdal
2021 – Retrospective last 10 Years Solo Exhibition @ Art B Gallery Bellville
2022 – Onwaarskynlik – Solo Exhibition @ Lizamore & Associates JHB

Janéne Steenkamp
Janéne Steenkamp

She lives in Hout Bay with her husband and daughter, and their hounds of love.

Gill Allderman
Gill Allderman
Gill is a contemporary artist using mixed media to create works on paper, canvas and other formats.
Gill has exhibited locally and internationally and recently returned from an Art Residency at the CITE INTERNATIONALE Des Arts in Paris.
Last year she completed a Post Graduate Dip in Fine Arts at Michaelis School of Fine Arts at the University of Cape Town.
She lives and has her studio in Kommetjie and is one of the Open Studio Kommetjie Artists.

Samantha Domonique Jacobs
Samantha Domonique Jacobs


Dion Evert
Dion Evert

I am retired from the Film and Television industry and now have more time to concentrate on being an artist in many disciplines. I am a lino-cutter and print-making enthusiast, also dabbling in sculpture, mould-making and 3D fabrications. I draw inspiration from the mightiness of the natural world and am fortunate to live in an isolated rural part of the country, down near the most southern tip of Africa. Having our resident pair of Spotted Eagle Owls currently raising their two fledglings right here in the garden gives me added inspiration to have some artistic fun with the Thinking Fund’s Barn Owl project.
The title of the Owl will be “Arnie”. Dedicated to the passing of a close friend.

Vuyisile Adoons
Vuyisile Adoons
My name is Vuyisile Adoons, a full time emerging artist based in the Free State where I was born. I studied Art at central
Johannesburg College where I obtained Diploma in Arts and Design.
In 2016 I decided to work as a full time artist. My work is mainly inspired by ordinary people in my community, especially the elderly people and children.
In 2017 I exhibited my work at the National Art festival in Grahamstown and at Macufe in Bloemfontein.
In 2018 August I got an invitation to showcase my work in New York, USA where I had a very successful exhibition. I was also featured in various newspapers such as Daily sun, Sunday world etc.
In 2019 September I showcased my work at Tulbagh Arts festival in Tulbagh Western Cape and sold few paintings. Recently I have exhibited my work at ABSA Gallery for a period of three months (May-July). My latest exhibition was at Hyde Hotel in Sea Point, Cape Town (Sept-Oct) for TAFAF group exhibition where I sold some of my work. Two of my remaining work can be seen at the hotel.
Commission portraits of prominent public figures:
- Maggy Sotyu (Former minister of Arts and Culture)
- Sisi Ntombela (Primer of the free state)
- Mamiki Qabathe (FS MEC of Social Development) Achievements
In 2019 October I was featured on the cover page of the South African
Artist Magazine for professional artists.
In 2020 I was also feature in the South African Artist Magazine where I took part in the Winsor& Neyton challenge with three other well-known artists.
I was featured on the cover page of an Annual report 2020/2021 for National Museum that was presented in parliament for that financial year. One of my art work was chosen by a University student in London to write an essay about.
In August 2021 I was featured on Drum magazine and NEWS24.COM in their online digital platforms. I sold my work all over S.A and abroad, in countries such as USA, Europe, Australia, UAE etc. Some of my work can be viewed at Oliewenhuis Art Museum in Bloemfontein.
Most of my work can be seen on my Facebook page, Twitter and
Instagram: vuyisileadoonsart@gmail.com
WhatsApp: 073 998 7241
Cell no: 073 302 7890