Pieter A. Pienaar

Today I want to speak about my Biblical journey with pen an ink illustration. I suppose, if someone had told me more than 25 years ago...

Yesterday a new friend came to view my Journey with Jeddah picture book and he stopped paging when he came upon the watercolour section...

There are days or weeks when I just don’t feel like making "serious" traditional works. During those periods I turn to abstraction and I...

Yesterday, I paid an artist friend a quick visit and she showed me her collection of works which she still intends to sell, as we were...

When I was a student, I wanted to participate in a (friendly) group show and I submitted a few works. The work which I included here,...

I decided to create a series of abstracts in September 2019 and I deliberately decided to use differently shaped canvases, simply because...

I am using text from my Journey with Jeddah book, which I trust the reader may enjoy. The extract is taken form the Portraits with ink...

As creatives we may often become a bit hesitant to start another big work; we know what awaits us. Why shall we not take a break from...

We may think, as artists or creatives, that the sole onus rests on us, when we plan to execute a creative idea. However, we need to take...

This morning, as I was looking through my digital portfolio, I saw this acrylic on board painting I made in 1996. I looked at it for a...

My Vision If I could press a key, To make fantasies appear, I would, I would. May it fall into place One amazing day. I am tied to a...

This post brings together a few difficult issues that deserve "deeper scrutiny", but not here and not now. Please hear my heart and bear...

What are you cooking when no one is looking? The art of cooking is perhaps the oldest form of art (and it is delightfully edible). I am...

I worked in China for two years and I tried to consolidate my experiences of the people and their world through my art projects. I...

A few good friends and I met outside Starbucks yesterday to connect like old friends do. One friend brought his photographic portfolio...

I ventured into a second-hand bookstore three days ago and I bought a few imported watercolour manuals which were printed in the United...

More than a decade ago (2007 to be exact), a gallery asked me to make a large abstract painting. They did not give me any indication of...

Two days ago, I ventured into an art gallery where I saw the beautiful works of a few friends. Another friend walked in and we started to...

Why are we so fascinated by things which are “lost”? Nowadays, we have access to YouTube and I find it very interesting to watch the...

This morning, after I had woken up, I remembered the image of the old door which I illustrated six years ago. I needed an idea for the...