Stone, Steel and Glass (V). Original oil painting.
This painting shows the Zeitz MOCAA building in Cape Town, South Africa.
This is the fifth in a series featuring urban landscapes and architecture that make for interesting art. The six-piece set focuses on the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art (MOCAA) in Cape Town's Waterfront precinct. This museum and the Silo Hotel above it were built into an old grain silo that has been modernized and given a unique look with faceted windows. I was drawn to the contrasting textures in the building - stone-like concrete, smooth metal and reflective glass, that interplay to form a diamond-like beacon in the landscape.
But what really did it for me while photographing it that Sunday morning was turning around and being stunned by its perfect, patterned reflection in the glass building next door. The first four paintings in the series capture this, whereas this one is a direct view in a daring perspective.
September 2024. 50cm x 75cm (20” x 30”).
Oil on 3mm primed Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) panel.
This painting shows the Zeitz MOCAA building in Cape Town, South Africa.
This is the fifth in a series featuring urban landscapes and architecture that make for interesting art. The six-piece set focuses on the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art (MOCAA) in Cape Town's Waterfront precinct. This museum and the Silo Hotel above it were built into an old grain silo that has been modernized and given a unique look with faceted windows. I was drawn to the contrasting textures in the building - stone-like concrete, smooth metal and reflective glass, that interplay to form a diamond-like beacon in the landscape.
But what really did it for me while photographing it that Sunday morning was turning around and being stunned by its perfect, patterned reflection in the glass building next door. The first four paintings in the series capture this, whereas this one is a direct view in a daring perspective.
September 2024. 50cm x 75cm (20” x 30”).
Oil on 3mm primed Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) panel.
This painting shows the Zeitz MOCAA building in Cape Town, South Africa.
This is the fifth in a series featuring urban landscapes and architecture that make for interesting art. The six-piece set focuses on the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art (MOCAA) in Cape Town's Waterfront precinct. This museum and the Silo Hotel above it were built into an old grain silo that has been modernized and given a unique look with faceted windows. I was drawn to the contrasting textures in the building - stone-like concrete, smooth metal and reflective glass, that interplay to form a diamond-like beacon in the landscape.
But what really did it for me while photographing it that Sunday morning was turning around and being stunned by its perfect, patterned reflection in the glass building next door. The first four paintings in the series capture this, whereas this one is a direct view in a daring perspective.
September 2024. 50cm x 75cm (20” x 30”).
Oil on 3mm primed Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) panel.