National Ceramic Exhibition 2010

What a FABULOUS wintry, grey day we had in Franschhoek yesterday for the Nationals at Grande Provence! And such an excellent collection of ceramic pieces! This Large Vessel 2 by Ralph Johnson won 2nd prize. One has to see it in person! The colour is quite tremendous!

This beautiful, raw collection (Untitled 1-3) by Bantu Mtshiselwa, won the prize under the category, first time exhibitor on a National. I just love the texture and colours, reminds me of raw bricks. What can I say... I'm an architect! ; )

This series is one of my favourites! I obviously have a bit of good taste, as the Clay museum gave Karen Sinovich a prize and bought the piece (Sea Air) for their permanent collection!

Then these pieces just fit together so well! The two jugs by Hennie Meyer & Earthship No.7 by Drury Brandt, it looks as though it could have been created by the same author!

Hope you enjoyed the images. Try and get to the exhibition though, it runs until 27 October 2010. But I will be posting a few images of the gorgeous gardens at the gallery during the course of the week! So come & check it out if you cant get there in person!

Dylan Lewis is taking off!

Eventually I have gotten my act together to get to Stellenbosch during office hours to visit the Dylan Lewis shop in the old Nedbank building diagonally opposite die Braak. And WOW WOW WOW! How worth it was the visit! And it is not a problem to take photographs!

I think the space is just gorgeous! Apparently they started with the renovations and the Dylan Lewis saw the raw space and instructed the contractors to leave it as is. FANTASTIC!

I love the shadows!

This white figure is one of ma favourites!!! now I cannot wait to go and visit the exhibition in Kirstenbosch!

deliCATessen @ Tokara

Had lunch at DeliCATessen yesterday and what a super spot! Good food, amazing views and what an awesome kid's play area!

I love the fact that the jungle gym has not got a single straight line... the swings & the slides are just GREAT! I also want to be a kid again!!!

And this "little" nest is just to die for! I also want one to hibernate in for the winter!!!

walking on the wild side...

I go walking five times a week with my parents two Jack Russels. But imagine my surprise when I saw what was lurking in the shadows! ; ) A werewolf or a hyena??? Well fortunately it's only the long hair Jack Russel that turns into a little monster! I in anycase decided to have some shadow puppet fun.

Obediently waiting at the traffic lights until it's time for us to go.

1910-2010: from PIERNEEF to GUGULECTIVE

Visited the South Africa National Gallery over the weekend and what an amazing exhibition they have running at the moment! So thought-provoking and inspiring!

This piece caught my eye as I am current attending Xhosa lessons. Thanks Brett!

Ndifunda isiXhosa! ; )

Flags in the sand...

Another piece on exhibition at the Benesse House Museum in Naoshima in Japan. All the flags in the, including South Africa's (although it is the old flag... so the piece must be a couple of years old), have been created with different colours of sand.

Now for the amazing part... all the flags are connected at the back with little tubes for the termites to walk through...

they walk across the art work and gather sand to deposit into their own new little termite flag in the middle! Who would have thought...