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I would appreciate anyone with a painting(s) of mine to email me images to include in this website. This is a start to attempt to assess, explain and support my work and a need for chronological perspective. As an art student during the 1960's and '70s I tended to experiment freely with ideas originating in Europe and America. I was influenced by post-painterly abstraction, a movement that asserted that painting is primarily about engaging with a flat surface and pigment, staining and painting colour onto the canvas in flat, hard-edged passages.

I also engaged the aesthetics of Op Art. Colour and shape are deployed to create visual illusions of depth and perspective. These works culminated in winning the painting section of the New Signatures Exhibition and afterwards an exhibition at Gallery 21, Johannesburg in 1973. These works stand apart from my later work and contrast dramatically.

In 1975 (exhibition Ansdell Gallery London) in addition to the box-perspective paintings, there is an introduction of a series of silkscreens and paintings of African graves and seascapes. In 1976 (exhibition Goodman Gallery Johannesburg) combined paintings of stone walls done in Devon England and African grave series done in the Magaliesburg. By 1978 (exhibition Goodman Gallery Johannesburg) all the images disappeared and the gallery was filled with large minimal, monochromatic, ethereal canvases suggesting landscapes.

From 1980, for the past 30 years, these surfaces evolved through many stages and aspects, the inner imaginations of my mind, often with titles chosen from the writings of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Jacques Lacan.

Some South African art, produced since the 1980s, has tended towards representational imagery reflecting the socio-political circumstances. As the political struggle intensified, art in response to the tragic narratives of Apartheid dominated the art scene. Contrary to my opposition to the narrow political concepts my art did not consciously illustrate the socio-political realities of the time. My work did not join mainstream cutting-edge South African art.

My work has been a private and personal journey, with interests in mystical and metaphysical themes. The history of art in S.A. is rich and complex with permutations, interactions and influences; artists have shifted back and forth between all aspects of realism and abstraction and will continue to challenge the parameters of any confining categories.

Gallery 21's Exhibition Space in 1973 (Courtesy Haenggi Foundation, Switzerland) Exhibition at Gallery 21 in 1973 Exhibition at Gallery 21 in 1973 Preparing for the exhibition at Ansdell Gallery, London 8 to 27 April 1975 Exhibition at Ansdell Gallery, London 8 to 27 April 1975 Exhibition at Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg 24 September - 8 October 1983 Exhibition at Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg 24 September - 8 October 1983 Exhibition at The Wedgewood Gallery, Johannesburg 30 November - 10 December 1994 Anton Uys on his exhibition at The Wedgewood Gallery, Johannesburg 30 November - 10 December 1994 Floating Box, 1973 Silkscreen, Ed.30 1020 x 660 Floating Box series and Metaphysical Boxes 7 (1973) Man Architecture and Landscape I, 1973 1200 x 1800 Man Architecture and Landscape II, 1973 1210 x 2050 (Pelmama Collection) Man Architecture and Landscape III, 1973 1500 x 1500 Man Architecture and Landscape IV, 1973 1200 x 1500 Man Architecture Landscape, 1973 Silkscreen, Ed.30 660 x 1020 Metaphysical Boxes IV, 1973 1010 x 1680 (Dimension Data collection) Metaphysical Boxes VII, 1973 1170 x 1750 Metaphysical Boxes I, 1975 900 x 1760 Metaphysical Boxes II, 1975 900 x 1760 Metaphysical Boxes III, 1975 900 x 1760 (Artist's collection) Metaphysical Boxes IV, 1975 900 x 1760 Metaphysical Boxes VIII, 1975 1170 x 1750 (Artist's collection) Seascape 1 and Her Desert like a Garden (1975) Seascape I, 1975 Silkscreen with photo positive, Ed.30 420 x 410 Seascape 2 and 3 (1975) Seascape II, 1975 Silkscreen with photo positive, Ed.20 370 x 610 Seascape III, 1975 Silkscreen with photo positive, Ed.30 350 x 860 African Graves Series and Metaphysical Boxes 8 (1975) Going Away, 1975 Silkscreen with photo positive, Ed.30 400 x 590 African Grave, 1975 Silkscreen with photo positive, Ed.25 380 x 560 African Grave Man Christ Thorn, 1975 Silkscreen with photo positive, Ed.30 400 x 560 Cup On African Grave, 1975 Silkscreen with photo positive, Ed.30 400 x 560 Objects in a Landscape, 1976 895 x 995 (Hester Rupert Museum) Landscape III, 1976 2360 x 1520 (Sanlam Art Collection) Stone Wall, 1976 2000 x 1300 Cloud Study, 1977 600 x 750 The Desert Like her Garden II, 1978 1200 x 1000 Orsons Painting, 1980 1620 x 1620 Three Landscapes and This Metaphysical Division, 1988 1700 x 4200 (Transnet Art Collection) 0 That Keep Some Memory, 1990 750 x 1200 Ancient Forest, 1990 150 x 200 Memory Of Trees, 1990 150 x 200 Recovering Memory, 1990 150 x 200 Trees As Fantasy, 1990 150 x 200 For The Moment Our Horizon II, 1992 1600 x 3000 Mneme, 1994 Catalogue # 19 270 x 2000 Fortunate Land, 1994 1200 x 2000 Mneme, 1994 300 x 400 Some Lone Forest Place, 1994 150 x 200 Secret of Dreams, 1994 760 x 1000 (Metropolitan Life) Her Desert, 1995 1000 x 1000 Retreat, 1996 1000 x 1000 Bow, 1997 1500 x 2000 Varying Degrees To The Life Of A Dreamer, 1997 300 x 200 Mysterious Earth Bares The Sky, 1998 500 x 750 Untitled Diptych, 1998 2400 x 1600 each For The Moment Our Horizon, 1999 1500 x 2000 Oceanic Feeling, 1999 1150 x 1700 Searching Land, 1999 1150 x 1700 Mneme, 1999 600 x 900 Seascape From Fortunate Land Series, 2000 760 x 1200 Mysterious Earth, 2000 900x1200 From Fortunate Land Series, 2002 1800 x 1200 Apotheosis, 2002 750 x 1200 In The Dream A Waterfall, 2004 750 x 1200 Oceanic Feeling, 2004 1500 x 2000 I Set My Rainbow In The Sky, 2005 1500 x 2000 In The Dream A Path, 2007 750 x 1200 Desert Like A Garden, 2007 420 x 610 And The Trees Are For Healing I, 2008 900 x 2100 Mneme, 2008 1200 x 1800 Untitled, 2009 Catalogue # 182.2 750 x 1200 Oceanic Feeling, 2009 Catalogue # 188 230 x 300 Full Moon, 2009 750 x 1200 Exhibition at the RCHCC, Great Park Synagogue, Houghton, Johannesburg July 2010 Exhibition : Grande Provence (Heritage Wine Estate), Franschhoek (Guest artist) August 2010 Retreat - Some Lone Forest Place, 2010 740 x 1200 Cloud in Dream Content, 2010 1800 x 1200 Mystic Rite, 2011 1000 x 2300 Speak Forest Speak, 2012 1000 x 2300 Speak Cloud Speak, 2013 1800 x 1200 Mysterious Earth, 2013 1200 x 1800