choices choices...

This blogging community is FANTASTIC! As you all know... on Saturday I went to check out the Flogging Art III exhibition at Curious Whetstone & Frankley http://fourwallsdesign.blogspot.com/2008/03/floggin-art-iii-continued.html - but here comes the cool bit... I started chatting to Michelle, who is one of the co-owner's, and she said I must put my name down for the mailing list. Then while I was takening some pics for my blog spot, this lady walks towards me and asks me if I am Janine, Janine from fourwalls? And then it turns out that she is Kat, as in Blackat from Anything Goes. http://kathblack.blogspot.com/ She saw my email address in the visitor's book and thought... what are the chances it's someone else... It was great meeting like that! And then of course earlier in the year I also met Denise from Freshly Found http://freshlyfound.blogspot.com/. This is just such a great community of like-minded people, that is growing by the day, and we are actually meeting in real life as well! really cool!

So now I have done it... I have committed myself to buy three Wildenboers... I just LOVE them!

Curious Whetstone & Frankley... continued

So here's a bit more detail from the exhibition still on at Curious Whetstone & Frankley in Obs, running until 13 April 2008!!! Firstly Cornelius Lemmer's http://www.corneliuslemmer.co.za/ baby leg vases... Check Jezze's blog out for more pics http://jezzeblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/fat-little-baby-legs.html

And then some of Barbara Wildenboer's limited prints... Also check out this sculpture/installation done by Barbara in Muizenberg... http://fourwallsdesign.blogspot.com/2007/10/barbara-wildenboer.html

These are my absolute FAVOURITES!!!

Barbara Wildenboer

This is a monument to Olive Schreiner (March 24 1855 – December 10 1920) was designed by Artist Barbara Wildenboer and is located in Kalk Bay, Western Cape, South Africa. It caught my eye and I thought it was really awesome.

The inscription read: “During the first decades of the 20th century Olive Schreiner spoke & wrote passionately in support of the Women’s Enfranchisement League which met in homes and halls throughout the city, including the English Church schoolroom that once stood here. Though the acclaimed author of The Story of an African Farm was a major force in the worldwide struggle for woman’s suffering, by 1912 she had quit the League because it refused to campaign for the vote for all woman in South Africa. White South African woman received the vote in 1930; black woman and black men, had to wait until 1994.”