Mental Map of Influences on my Art
Background
1. My earliest influences
were school textbook illustrations, especially biological and scientific
diagrams.
2. Letters and words, numbers
and matrices have been passions of mine since childhood:
3. At school I always liked
Leonardo da Vinci more than Rembrandt, van Gogh or Picasso because he did this:
So here are some of the
contemporary art that excite, motivate and inspire me:
4. William Kentridge (South African)
5. Kevin Atkinson (South African)
6. Willem Boshoff (South African)
7. Deborah Bell (South African)
8. An exciting new local artist – Mongezi Ncaphayi (South
African)
To balance the scientific, mathematical side I
have always loved anything to do with stitching.
An example is Agnes Richter’s
embroidered asylum jacket and Japanese boro stitching.
This probably explains why I am inspired by works such as these:
9. Maurizio Anzeri (Italian)
10. Emily Barletta (American)
