Artist Description
"When I painted my smaller study of this view, I was always imagining a bigger painting. I ordered a lot of canvases for this show, and this large size of 100x60cm was perfect for the dimensions of the smaller study. It didn't take me long to transpose the mountains and road from the smaller canvas to this bigger one. I could enjoy the experience of painting this view a second time, this time with more attention on the detail of the Fynbos in the foreground, and enjoying other details like the row of trees along the road at the base of the mountains. Perhaps one of the special things for me about painting in Cape Town, is that I know that road - I've driven it many times. So even though the trees are very small and quite far away, in my mind's eye I know just what road they are straddling, and where that road leads to... "
Location: 34.26106 S, 18.45666 E
