Waterfall Artists.
There are many artist in Waterfall and we would like to add a new one from time to time. Please send details of how to get in touch with your favourite artist and we will contact them to see if they are willing to be featured on the site. Alternatively if you are an artist wanting some publicity for your work please contact Matt at [email protected]
Waterfall Community Website interviews Yvonne Lovie
WCW: Has art always been part of your life? YL: I love nature, as a child I sketched. I also used to paint with poster paint. I never quite made friends with water colour though. I love colour… I’m very bold when it comes to colour. But I love to paint anything and everything. WCW: Who would be some of your favourite artists? YL: Van Gogh – I love his struggle, I’ve been to Amsterdam and seen his paintings. Salvador Dali, I also went to an exhibition of his where they had brought pieces from all over the world. Da Vinci – His drawings, the fact that he painted a handful of paintings that made such a huge impact on the world of art. Michael Angelo – the techniques of his to accomplish what he did are unbelievable, those statues, the Sistine Chapel. Yvonne also went on to show works by three current artists on her ipad as she Googled their paintings. Daniel Gerhartz, Jeremy Lipkin, Peter Wileman. All painters with a distinct style and astonishing use of colour. Talking about the artists Yvonne is reflective: I like the contrast between the dark and light. You never stop learning, improving. It’s good to fail, in there is a lesson. WCW: When did you know you had talent, try not to be modest? YL: I always knew I could draw, I was frustrated painting. I have come a long way. A lot of artists have a painting they work on all the time; it enables them to see where they are. WCW: Would you identify with a certain style, school or genre of painting? YL: I’m a classic artist, fine artist, realism. I like to paint what I see. WCW: How has your work changed over time? YL: I started off with impressionism. (Painting) I have become more technical and now I want to simplify things again. I have learnt enough to put down what I want the way I want it. I don’t get stuck in a subject. I think I’ve developed my own style. WCW: Briefly what is your technique? YL: I strongly believe in an under painting. I follow this with layers of colour glazing, finished off with details in opaque. I start with dark and move on to the light. WCW: What does painting do for you? What do you get out of it? YL: I think it must be same feeling as a satisfying game of golf or a photographer capturing that perfect interpretation of a scene, a sense of achievement – capturing your interpretation onto canvas. Of course it’s always a challenge every time you pick up a brush. WCW: What are your influences and what’s your inspiration, do you have a muse? YL: Not specifically – but looking at artists images on the PC can be inspiring, also art exhibitions like our Art in the Park. I don’t lack subject matter. I just look around, there’s loads of subject matter. I sometimes take myself down to the Makaranga Lodge and take photos. It’s all around. I’m inspired by life. What advice would you give someone who wants to paint pictures like yours? YL: You must go through the steps, follow a process. Drawing achieves this more than anything. The discipline of drawing is the basis. There is a book I’d like to recommend in this regard “The oil Painting Course You’ve Always Wanted.” By Kathleen Staiger who is an award winning author and painter. It’s available as an ebook at well as from Amazon.com. To View A Gallery Of Yvonne's Paintings Click Here |
Peter Wink
Peter Wink Hails from Waterfall in KZN. He paints and sculpts and has been active for many years. Below are some examples of his work.
See his Facebook Pager for more details: https://www.facebook.com/Peter-Wink-Art-127783237310936/https://www.facebook.com/Peter-Wink-Art-127783237310936/ I took this below video at the Longmynd Gallery on Old Main Road in Hillcrest on the 19th of August 2016. It is the work of local Waterfall Artist Peter Wink.
Yvonne Lovie
About Yvonne
Local artist Yvonne Lovie can be found most days alternating work between two to three canvasses indicative of her high work ethic and perpetually expressive creativity. But there’s far more to Yvonne than painting. Born in Lusaka Zambia (then Northern Rhodesia) on a farm outside the city, looking back Yvonne describes herself as being very much a farm girl. She describes those days as times of great freedom being the tomboyish one out of three sisters. Yvonne grew up speaking the local vernacular and remembers these times with a healthy nostalgia. When the political situation changed, the family moved to Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) to just outside Harare (then Salisbury) where Yvonne was educated. It was here that she met a boy, Rod Lovie, who she would ultimately marry years later as they went off to see the world together. He worked on an oil rig in the North Sea whilst Yvonne worked for the same company in Aberdeen in Scotland where many of Rod’s family haled from. Homesick for Africa Yvonne and Rod moved to Johannesburg where Yvonne became involved in personnel consulting work, ultimately she would run her own personnel business. But in 1992 the family moved to Natal to pioneer toner recycling which didn’t really exist in Durban at that time. The company started in the Lovies garage and grew into the factory that they run from Waterfall Industrial to this day. Apart from running a dog grooming business, Shampooch Dog Parlour in Link Hills Road, Waterfall, Yvonne has her finger in many pies and is an active member of her church too, St Dominic’s RC Church.
Yvonne’s family all have an artist streak especially her mother who is schooled in most crafts worth mentioning. Apart from doing art at school Yvonne, like many artists, grew up sketching with pencil and charcoal. Despite always being a busy business woman and mother of two she always kept up sketching as the mainstay of her creative expression. Later in life Yvonne found she had more time on her hands, despite being mother to five demanding Scottie dogs. She decided to actively pursue learning to paint in oil and began taking lessons with local impressionist painter Shirley Howell. Yvonne explains how this: “was good for me because I’m a details person.” She was not allowed to use a pencil and had to focus on creating images with paint and brush only. It was with Shirley that Yvonne learnt about colour, tone and mixing. Shirley was easy to relate to as she had also started painting late in life, she still paints and teaches to this day. When Shirley took a sabbatical Yvonne took up lessons with national award winning water-colourist and oil painter Steve Shooter, also of Waterfall. Being the total opposite to Shirley, Steve taught Yvonne more of the techniques of oil painting relating to detail in particular. By 2014 Yvonne decided to go full time into painting and hasn’t looked back. |
About the Paintings
Carey is inspired by the likes of Rosina Wachtmeister and of course the Cat. The paintings are an example of naive art - a child-like expression of an imaginary universe where cats are personified with habits, behaviour and even stances and demonstrativeness of people. In Carey's world cats and other stylised animals and creatures live in harmony - all enjoying the rainbow of crazy colours in a two dimensional world. The paintings are generally large and painted in acrylic paint over stretched canvas. To view Carey's Paintings Click Here to go to her Gallery |
Carey Scott
About Carey
(Taken from her Website www.catartbycarey.weebly.com) When I first met Carey she didn't meet me because she was being distracted by a cat. I tried very hard to impress this girl with my witty remarks and polite manners, to no avail. A large ginger tom was weaving its way around her legs, tail up and quivering with a desperate need for attention. It was the first time, but far from the last, that I felt the need to compete with another animal for the affections of this woman. Carey has no memory of this occasion. No prizes for why. Such is the nature of the artist before us. Many of us have tried to persuade Carey to paint something other than cats: "ducks" I announced one day with a rush of blood to my voice box, "ducks are good, ducks work, they're cute and they go quack..." I mean, how hard can it be? But NOOOOO, another painting of a cat was produced with sprightly aplomb. Carey's love for cats and their unique nature as top of the food chain, in her opinion, continue to shine out of Carey's paintings. Look carefully at the pictures and you will notice feline personalities (or should that read catanalities?) shine through that you are bound to recognise from daily life. To view Carey's Paintings Click Here to go to her Gallery |