About Virginia

I live in Durban, a semi tropical city on the east coast of South Africa - a place which is colourful, humid and holidayish but at the same time a major port.

I guess because of our warm ever-summer climate and South African sunshine I embrace colour. I love colour.

Perhaps too because I have emerged from a difficult adjustment in my life, my work now reflects something more light hearted, happy and simple. At the very least, I hope it imparts a celebration of brightness!

Last year I worked almost exclusively in pencil, drawing African wild life, flora and fauna as well as landscapes in black and white. From the drawings I made and marketed greeting cards which were locally well received but, as I said, black and white.

I am in love now with modern luminous paint. And lines. The figures recently painted are - like femininity - both powerful and fragile. Time does not matter. Nor does age. What matters is truth and grace. And sometimes it works for me.