Original surreal oil painting butcher birds

Project: Butcher Birds

A Collaboration…commissioned surreal painting. It was once again, as was the case in similar collaborations in the past, a very rewarding and fulfilling experience for both parties involved. The client had the opportunity to both […]

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Project: Pienk Veer

A collaboration…commissioned surreal painting I was commissioned by a very special client to do this 2.3m wide surreal painting. As with other projects of this scale and scope, I always refer to them as collaborations […]

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The walls are filling…

I had the good fortune to be commissioned to paint seven huge canvasses for a hotel restaurant in Cape Town. I started working on the first drafts at the end of September 2013 and currently […]

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surreal painting by south african artist pieter van tonder titled 'el shaddai'

Project: El Shaddai

A wonderful creation; commission of a surreal painting This was the second collaboration of similar magnitude as its predecessor ‘The Eye’ and successfully completed in 2013. Size: 90 x 120cm It all started with the […]

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The Seventh Veil

This is the seventh and last canvas in the series. I had already been working on the other six for months while this one remained ominously blank. I left this one for last for two […]

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Color revolution.

I entirely failed to update this blog as frequently as I intended, when I launched it a few months ago. The reasons can be explained here but that will make an extremely boring post and […]

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Crisp foreground

The human eye has a great time absorbing our beautiful world, day after day, from first light to dark. Almost without tire, the eye patiently follows lines, and shapes; it jumps from color to patch […]

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