Pieter A. Pienaar

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...

This morning I had a conversation with a friend and we were talking about the prolific things we as humans do – the good things – and how...

I was wondering about what to say today and then I recalled something which happened three decades ago. I made two art works which were...

Each artist (part-timer, full-timer or “any-timer”) has a story to tell of how someone or a gallery left a smudge on their colourful...

About two decades ago I was exhibiting my abstractions at an arts festival in South Africa and in the caravan park where we stayed, the...

About 25 years ago I created an abstract piece which was lovely to me, but it was clearly not the taste of a pair passing by. I laughed...

For the last two days I have been working on a song to say good-bye to Jeddah, a place that I admired and praised with many art works I...

More than two decades ago I did large abstractions on canvas and these you could call my "doodling" phase. I included a "crop" of such a...

Sometimes we need a break from all the things that (want to) annoy and "destroy" us. Let us plan an escape to a place where fantasy makes...

Somewhere in a little devotional book which I bought on a sale years ago was a photo and underneath it was a sentence that went something...

If only we knew or could know that something we create would sell well, then we could prepare a crate full of those items or paintings...

I looked at my collection of images this morning in order to find something to blog about. I stumbled upon a painting I made in 2009...

In 1996 a pastor prayed for me while I was attending a small group meeting and his prayer was rather strange. He told me of things to...