Pieter A. Pienaar

This is not an easy question to answer, I think, because we never know how much information the other party requires. Obviously, our...

Dave Cenker (Second Chance) said, "I never realized thinking could be so tiring." Fortunately, and unfortunately, we can attribute quite...

A few days ago, I tweaked a simple birthday song I wrote for a friend two months ago. I removed his name from the song and made it a song...

Today I enjoyed the luxury of ordering fruit online, which the supermarket delivered to our quarantine facility. A friend and I were...

J. G. Holland says, “God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.” Yesterday I spoke to a businessman on the...

I am currently (like many people all over the world) in a locked down state and I may not venture out of my quarantine room. I do not...

We “believe” we are educated, liberated and informed, but can we match the power of a single rose? This is an acrylic on board work I...

Let us write a little poem today to articulate what the negatives and the positives in our lives are at the moment. Let us be honest with...

As creatives (or all people for that matter) we often think we have to deliver a unique product (or song) in order to be worthy of...

I am currently trying to put my time of isolation to good use and I am working on a non-fiction monograph that I hope to see published...

This morning after my breakfast pack was delivered to my door in the quarantine facility, I decided to make a cup of coffee to complete...

Years ago, before the digital camera came to enthrall us with is endless possibilities, I remember being captivated by those photography...

As I was trying to think about what to write today, I paged through my archive and I saw an art work that made me very happy, because a...

Yesterday I had the pleasure or privilege to be on a repatriation flight from Saudi Arabia to South Africa. After two months of...

Yesterday I had a Messenger conversation with a friend of mine and I sensed that he needed to hear words of encouragement. I tried my...

This morning as I was preparing to write this post, I had to look at what I could talk about and I saw the first collection of abstracts...

I included an acrylic spout drawing I made in 2009. I think this image suits the topic. This is the first painting I sold online. If I...

Those of us who are familiar with the art history of the 20th century will know the story of Piet Mondrian and his apple tree. He made...

(I included a paragraph from my Journey with Jeddah coffee table book, published in 2019. The last paragraph is new.) I feel guilty to...

Four years ago, a group of enthusiastic artists asked me to join them at an outdoor event. It was the annual festival and this group of...