Roots and Rust

Roots and Rust.
Original oil painting on stretched canvas.
700 x 500mm. Unframed.

“Roots and Rust” reflects the quiet solitude of the Karoo- where time moves slowly and the land holds onto memories.:
the red-roofed house and broken fence, weathered but standing, speaks of lives once lived and memories once made. The dead tree beside it becomes a monument of days gone by, its bare branches reaching like echoes into the sky, and its roots clinging to the lifeless stones.

The painting is about more than just a landscape; it’s about belonging, loss, and the beauty in stillness.
The aloe in full bloom on the right-hand, resembles ongoing life after loss, therefore honors the memories of a place once called home.