2024 artists
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Jéan America
Jéan uses found materials in his unique painted artworks, and is best known for his vibrant murals.
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Astrid Blumer
Astrid’s work focuses on imagined botanicals, feminine energy, and symbolism, expressed as layered works that signify transformation, growth, and connection.
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Wim Botha
Wim Botha is best known for his installation works and sculptures in various media. For Open Studios he presents tea bowls that he makes in the Japanese tradition, high fired stoneware in wood or gas kilns.
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Theresa Wormser
Theresa’s asymmetric, hand-rendered ceramics are a statement about our individuality and the importance of play.
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Shaune Rogatschnig
Shaune Rogatschnig’s mixed media artworks are informed by the natural landscapes around her and result from her intuitive, abstract approach to finding the essence of a space.
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Sharday Swanepoel
Sharday Swanepoel is a lens-based artist who uses the photograph as a means to explore social issues, personal identity, and domesticity in South Africa.
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Ruth le Roux
Ruth’s abstract paintings reflect nature’s quiet power, combining expressive layers with restrained marks to capture the essence of mountains, water, rocks, and plants.
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Reagan Rubain
Reagan is a mosaic artist who uses his art to uplift, inspire, and motivate by creating unique collection pieces, and beautifying public spaces.
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Odette Howell
As a fine art photographer, Odette creates poetic autobiographical series that explore identity, memory, and emotional stillness inspired by nature.
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Nic Bladen
Working as NicBladen Botanicals, and represented by Everard Read Gallery, metalworker Nic Bladen creates jewellery and full-scale plant sculptures dedicated to preserving the beauty of 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
Chip comments on our relationship with nature in murals and sculpture including carvings, castings, assemblages and public installations using alien vegetation and found objects.
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Michelle Beattie
Highlighting the severity of the ocean plastic pollution crisis, Michelle Beattie brings you her intuitive art sculpted from ocean plastic.
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Michele Koch
Inspired by the natural environment, Michele uses materials such as sea grass, fynbos, and horsehair in making unique ceramic dishware and decorative pieces.
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Mariëtte Momberg
Mariëtte is a visual artist and printmaker working across various genres to explore themes of rupture, reclamation, and connection.
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Leah Rolando
As a photographic artist, Leah uses brightly coloured acrylic panels, hard studio lighting, and shadowplay to create optical illusions.
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Joanne Milne
Painter Joanne Milne draws inspiration from the natural world, exploring seascapes, clouds, flowers and portraits with drama and sensitivity.
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Jenny Chadwick
Jenny produces a range of ceramics, from functional and pit-fired ware to sculptures for potters’ markets, exhibitions, and galleries.
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Janet Ormond
Janet is an environmental artist who transforms ocean plastic into striking artworks. Her practice highlights the impact of pollution, while celebrating nature’s beauty.
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Gill Allderman
Gill is a contemporary artist working in mixed media across varied surfaces. Her practice is rooted in series-based work that explores layered narratives.
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Jane Eppel
As a printmaker and painter, Jane Eppel creates detailed and delicate works that reflect her belief in the intimate entanglement of all things.
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Elizabeth Vels
With a focus on on texture, biblical metaphor, record-keeping and Art History, Elizabeth Vels’s work includes painting, drawing, etching, stitching and ceramics, with artist books being central to her process.
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Anneke Potgieter
Anneke’s atmospheric abstract landscapes, rich in mist and mystery, are at once familiar and strange, quietly drawing the viewer in.
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Adrian Owen
Adrian Owen is a self-taught mixed media artist, specialising in portraiture and illustration. He prefers the tactility of traditional mediums, working in various media, including charcoal, watercolour, acrylic and oil.
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Beth Lowe
As a plein-air artist, Beth paints and sketches from life, constantly chasing the light. She also creates stitched works from found objects.
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Laurel Holmes
Laurel Holmes is an oil painter and accomplished printmaker influenced by the spirit and aesthetics of nature.
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Kristen McClarty
Kristen McClarty is a specialist printmaker with a focus on woodcut, monotype, and screen printmaking techniques. She experiments with natural surfaces and the transfer of marks onto paper, cloth, and various Japanese paper textiles.
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Karen Elkington
Ruth Prowse Fine Art graduate Karen Elkington paints provoking imagined scenes reflecting current issues.
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Nicolette Geldenhuys
Nicolette is a mixed media artist whose work blends representational elements with abstract expression through painting, printmaking, drawing, and stitching.
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Jenna Burchell
Jenna creates alternative archives that fuse digital and natural elements to preserve stories and memories.