We are pleased to welcome nine new faces to Open Studios Kommetjie 2024, including artists from the fields of photography, illustration, painting, sculpture, mosaic and mixed media.
Last year’s guest artist, Wim Botha, returns as an official artist for 2024. We also welcome a new guest artist, Jenna Burchell, to this year’s programme.
This brings the total number of artists at Open Studios Kommetjie 2024 to 32 – the most we have ever hosted!
For our returning visitors who have enjoyed exploring our artist studios in previous years, be sure not to miss the exciting new additions for 2024.
Get to know them below.
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Jean America
Mural artist Jean America creates layers of colour using found materials. He is currently working on a new body of work of smaller paintings, on show at Hope Town’s studio at Imhoff Farm for Open Studios Kommetjie 2024.
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Astrid Blumer
Astrid’s art combines various mediums to explore nature and feminine energy through textured, organic forms, detailed with symbolism and floral imagery.
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Ruth le Roux
Painter Ruth le Roux distills the essence of natural forms through expressive painting and meditative mark-making in an intuitive approach to painting.
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Reagan Rubain
Mosaic artist Reagan Rubain creates public murals, wall art, floor designs, and crafts that enhance and invigorate dull spaces, using his art to combat poverty and support animal welfare.
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Odette Howell
Odette Howell’s photography and lens-based art explores the beauty and fragility of our environment, inspiring viewers to reflect on our own relationship with nature.
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Michelle van Reenen
Michelle van Reenen’s intuitive paintings delve into the complex relationship between the conscious and unconscious selves, revealing the psyche by giving it form and colour.
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Chip Snaddon
Well known for his land art and murals in Kommetjie, Chip Snaddon has worked as a ‘jack-of-all-trades’ in image-making – from a BAFA in photography, to cartoon-work and storyboarding, to paintings, installations and recently, bronze sculpture.
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*Jenna Burchell
Using sound to communicate emotions, memories and experiences symbolically, artist Jenna Burchell is constantly in search of ways to archive sounds into objects.