Artists

Andrew Mogridge

 Zero artist statement, Bru.

Jeff Rankin

Starting in 1971 Jeff studied fine art and printmaking to masters level (in Durban, the UK and Stellenbosch). He has worked as art educator (1976 -2009), political cartoonist, illustrator and designer. His first group exhibition was in 1973 in Durban; since then he has participated in solo and group shows in SA and abroad, and continues to do so. His next solo show is at the Moor Gallery in Franschhoek, October 2017.

An early interest in drawing, graphic art and the book arts, made printmaking a natural focus. Hard-ground etching was an early choice as it suits his use of line drawing. For the past 15 years he's enjoyed working in woodcut (prints or the original block hand-coloured). This continues while he explores other mediums, nothing excluded.

In 2009 Jeff left full-time employment to become an independent artist and to build the studio where he now works, on the southern edge of the Wild Coast (close to East London, in the village of Sunrise-on-Sea). The studio is equipped with presses for etching, woodcut, linocut and other printmaking techniques. When not involved with commissions or major art-making projects, he offers workshops for adult learners and experienced artists.

Influenced by the rich tradition of graphic satire, Jeff views and depicts his experience of the world using the ink of social realism. This backgrounds his obsession with the language of visual detail and its generous suggestion of metaphor. His formative subjective homeland was a public and private minefield. Negotiating this contradictory landscape, he has used - and continues to use - his best creative work as both a weapon of choice and a peace offering. 

Kate Teesdale a.k.a. Letsleepingdragons


UK-born artist Kate got her Fine Art degree in 2005 from Rhodes University, Grahamstown, focusing on photo-realist painting.  She has been working as a professional artist since then and has exhibited in three solo exhibitions and many group shows around South Africa.  

She is still mostly a painter, working with acrylics and oils on canvas, and does large scale murals and paint effects, but has broken the photo-realist mould and now uses photographic reference to create images and worlds of her own on canvas and wall.  Kate lives and works in Cintsa East and is one of the founding members of The Hearth.






Natalie van Wyk

'I am a landscape artist working in the Romantic tradition where landscape becomes a metaphor for inner states as well as an expression of the numinous.I love being alone in nature and am immensely drawn to a sense of beauty and of transience.

I work with soft pastel as I find paint too fluid a medium for me. I prefer to make marks as opposed to brushstrokes. The fragility of the medium also attracts me. It's like painting with dust. I always work on Black paper. Allowing the image to emerge from the darkness is a meaningful part of the process for me. 

I am not particularly interested in naturalism, but in art as a synthesis of remembered and felt experience and the use of symbolism to convey meaning.'

Pam Heaton

Pam has chosen to spend her retirement years immersed in art.  Her interest lies in abstract art and she enjoys working with acrylics, mixed media and printmaking.

She loves to combine travel and art and is appreciative of the opportunity she had to train with Bunny Newth, painter, and Mick Newth, printmaker.  At their studio in South West France they started her on the road of mixed media, printmaking and painting.  

Pam has gone on to develop her knowledge of painting under the tuition of Emily Ball of Seawhite Studios near Brighton and with Maggie O’Brien of  Newlyn School of Art in Cornwall,  and of printmaking with local artist Jeff Rankin.  She has also attended short courses with South African artists Claire Menck and Diane Victor and is presently studying drawing with Kate Teesdale.

Simon Gower

'My work is personal. I am not an activist. Maybe one day I will become a soldier in the war of ideas, but for now my work is a search for something beautiful. An attempt to create something original and honest. The subject of my work reflects my inward turned search for meaning and understanding, as well as a desire for the feminine presence and love. I have long passed the nihilism of rationality and the materialist mindset, I now seek to create my own meaning, to try my utmost to build a new house for God by means of the articulation of idea through matter. Allowing thought to condense into objects, artifacts, flotsam bobbing on the wake of the passing “intelligence”.'










Tersia Vermaak

Tersia is a Cintsa East-based architect 'by day'. She studied colourism and has a fascination with harmony in interior and exterior living spaces, so her creativity has come off the walls and onto canvas and paper.  She has travelled the world collecting all manner of things blue and green, and has a Zen-like meditative approach to her painting, often working with colours as an exercise in balancing them next to each other.  She accepts commissions.

Timothy Glasby

Tim Glasby is an East London born artist. He studied fine art at the East London Technical College,and also did an apprenticeship in portraiture, working in an art studio next to a huge factory in Dimbaza, and later from an East London based farm. He learned to oil paint by watching his father and grandfather paint. They had both passed away by the time that he began to paint, but the skill seemed to come naturally to him, and he began to exhibit his work by the end of his first year college. 

He has painted professionally for more than twenty years since, creating masterpieces that are so fine that when exhibited, people are forgiven for thinking that his pencil drawings and oil paintings are enlarged photographs. He currently lives and works at a modern flat/art studio located within five minutes walk from the Bonza Bay beach in East London, and accepts commissions.


Tori Stowe 

'Two years ago I started again, with a white page, writing, thinking, drawing endless lines towards a visual story that truly represented me. Blinkers. My love of nature, comfort in the framework of design, confusion about cultural identity, my endless search for a place which is home, displacement, longing for belonging. History not being my story -themes which are continuous and central within the rush of my life.'







Tyerell Jordaan

Tye has lived out on the east coast here since he was nine years old. He grew up spending most of his time on the beach and from those early days he has always had a huge fascination with the ocean and its surroundings. The different moods and personalities of the ocean are ever changing and have drawn him in for as long as he can remember. Spending large amounts of time surfing and swimming he was always mesmerized by the weird and wonderful things you witness. Water and light do some amazing things when combined. He has always had a love for photography and originally bought a camera to document some travels and life between surf. Once he could afford some proper gear he was like a sponge, trying to read every article on photography he could find. 

He won a few reader competitions in Zigzag surfing magazine and was asked to contribute regularly to the magazine and still does. The photographic art side really grabbed him when he got a water housing: he was finally able to capture those unreal moments that happen when you are alone at sunrise or sunset. Each of those moments are special to him: "It's just you out in the sea watching these magical moments through your lens." His work on display at The Hearth is a collection of images from Chintsa and surrounding beaches.

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Ymke Hemminga

Ymke Hemminga was born in Waddinxveen, a village of Benoni-esque boredom in the Netherlands. She spent years thinking whilst cycling, drawing, dreaming of uninterrupted horizons, and writing, padded with a fair amount of faffing. After traveling, studying fine arts in SA, studying creative- and play-writing in Amsterdam, she landed in South Africa permanently in 2003, where an uninterrupted horizon was found on a smallholding in Boschkop east of Tshwane.

Ymke has been illustrating and writing free lance since 1999, the keyword here is analog! Un-photo-shopped pen and ink scribbles often accompanied by long limbed, poetic cursive writings.  In 2009 she started her own range of A5 postcards and illustrated crockery because there is so much white crockery in the world…and she still scribbles freelance for magazines, logo’s, invitations, books and private commissions.

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