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Barberton, South Africa

Oil, earth, and things I couldn't leave alone.

I make paintings from whatever catches my attention: weathered surfaces, oxidised metal, Barberton red earth, and the occasional happy accident.

Selected Paintings

Surface and Memory

Some paintings are carefully planned. Others begin because I apparently cannot leave well enough alone.

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The KYOS Series

Order, metal, and chaos.

KYOS is an ongoing body of work exploring the friction between mechanical precision and decay. Old instruments, gears, and oxidised sheets meet quiet fields of oil paint.

A damaged surface is almost always more interesting than a clean piece of paper.

From the Workbench

I work with paint, old metal, Barberton earth, and whatever else refuses to be thrown away.

Retha Olivier

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