Notebook folios
Six detailed scans from working sketchbooks recording material experiments and chemical reactions.
Accidental marks
Sometimes an accidental coffee spill or an errant drop of turpentine solves a compositional dead end faster than an hour of deliberate drawing.
Retha Olivier
Material study
Iron ore on wet paper
Found fragments of oxidized metal collected from the hills around Barberton, placed directly onto damp watercolour paper to let the rust bleed its own narrative into the fiber.
Trace how these raw material questions eventually find their way onto finished oil paintings on linen.