Tokai Forest Land Art

This land art was created during the June gathering for the monthly Cape Land Art sessions
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Inspiration: Jonkershoek

I joined Intuition Sunday Walks again, and as always it was an incredible experience - an inspiring, relaxing, thought-provoking, educational, spiritual, awe-inspiring and humbling experience. I forgot to take my camera, so used my phone to take some pictures. I used Photoscape to just give each photo an extra little bump up the aesthetic scale - to do justice to the scenes I experienced, something that's never truly possible with a photograph, in my opinion. We can try as hard as we can and we can express certain aspects of the landscape, or the flowers, or the mountain, but we can never truly and fully represent it. However, artists like me will never stop trying either! And these photographs will be the inspiration of some new artworks. 

Solitude

solitude can bring you wisdom
 but love and companionship brings growth.
I walk among mountains within desert landscapes
to find myself. to find inner peace.  

I then return to the people I love,
and share the insights, wisdom and happiness.
And so together we can learn and grow. 

Next time I take you with me into the desert,
into the mountains. 

JB, 2014. 

Photographs taken in the South Sinai, Egypt.

More land art on Gordon's Bay beach

Small elongated pieces of rock that seems to 'sliver' off from large rocks, planted into the sand, and washed away by the tide

These are the rocks where I found the long pieces of rock. There are several yellow rocks lying around, which I used to accentuate a natural cleft between the rocks.

Riebeeck Kasteel

I took a trip to Riebeeck Kasteel in the Western Cape, about an hour's drive (depending on how many trucks are on the road, and how many times you stop to take photographs) from Cape Town, to spend an evening with the very talented artists Stefanie Schoeman and Loni Dräger. I didn't take a lot of photos, but here is some of them and you might see traces of them in some new artworks I'm currently working on.

Pieces & Puzzles at the Lovell Gallery

"Glimpses", Janet Botes, 2013. To be exhibited as part of:

Pieces & Puzzles: Compositions of Human Expression Inspired by Nature.

Made, Mind, Explore; the Imagination of Nature

Join us for the opening of our Exhibition on Saturday, 24 August 2013 @ The Lovell Gallery

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The exhibition will run from 24 August until 26 September and if you cannot attend the opening; be sure not to miss the show!

Curated by Stefanie Schoeman

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Invitation design by David Brits

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Inspiration: Suikerbossie

Photos taken during a group hike with Intuition Walks (intuitionwalks.com), doing the Suikerbossie Contour walk, towards Orange Kloof & Constantia Nek through a indigenous forest to the waterfall at Myburgh's Kloof.