Pieter A. Pienaar

(Another abbreviated extract from my Faces in the Crowd document which was published in 2017. The last paragraph is new!) … As I was...

Last night I spoke to a friend and we spoke about many things, such as the ecosystems, the cycle of life and cruelty in nature (from a...

Yesterday afternoon I was relaxing inside a swimming pool. The inviting light blue colour of the water is always a comfort to me (or...

(A modified extract from a document I wrote in October 2017, explaining my ‘Faces in the Crowd’ collage collection.) I did a series of 40...

We are all feeling the “mind-adjusting” effects of the current pandemic in one way or another. We are all sitting with a list of videos...

I am not really fond of doing pencil drawing; I simply prefer to do faster and more spontaneous expressions with colour. Deep down in my...

(This photograph is not good and the dark areas were not that dark.) Sometimes we encounter a benefactor who will say: “I like this...

Often, we cringe when we look at our first efforts: our first oil painting, our first poem, our first published book, our first song, our...

Yesterday on YouTube I listened to a personal story of struggle with regards to a book review that spun out of orbit, as it was told by a...

Somewhere along my art route I met a friend who was studying art and his art academy taught them to use a limited palette to enhance...

Twenty years ago, my square abstract painting entitled “Desert ice cream” was a sweet favourite of a couple who walked past my little...

I cleaned the kitchen. I started to prepare something for breakfast and then I saw the small musk melon (“spanspek”) I bought at the...

A decade ago, an artist friend gave me a bag full of good quality acrylic paint in tubes; she suffered from allergic reactions whenever...

Last night I listened to all three volumes of The Tipping Point by Gladwell that he narrates on YouTube. A friend asked me to become...

During October 2014 I decided it was time to visit the old city again with my camera and I had a mission on my mind: I wanted to do...

Time can be our friend and time can be our enemy too. When we are experiencing misery, time passes slowly and when we are having fun,...

I went for an early morning bicycle ride and I was thinking about the post I had to write. I felt I wanted to say something about lines....

My eyes fell upon an old work of mine this morning and I recalled the unexpected impact it made on a friend who does not really like art....

More than three decades ago I was working on this still life study. It was one of those works which does not gel immediately and...

This morning as I was looking through my portfolio for an idea for this post, I saw my abstract oil painting called “Boat ride”, which I...