About Rodney:
Born in South Africa and trained as an Artist and Industrial Designer, Rodney explores colour, form and perception through sketch-based digital and traditional processes.
His work is rooted in observation, drawing inspiration from nature, architecture and everydayvisual patterns.
The influence of the sounds, colours, rhythm, vibrancy, art and artists of Africa have never left him and his life experience in Africa is still expressed in much of his art.
Rodney's Design Experience includes:
* Office Furniture
* Interior Design of Offices and Banking Halls
* Hotel and Hospitality Furniture
* Product Design and Production
Exhibited in:
* Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition -1995, 1996 and 2019.
* Riverdale Art Walk - 2019, 2020
* Art Walk Square - 2020
* Leslie Grove Gallery - 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
* Riverside Common - 2022
Trees on The Beach in Curacao
Creative Processes:
To me art is everywhere, in the formations of trees and rocks, in the lines, shadows and details of a building, in the graffiti on street walls, on advertising billboards and packaging, in a child’s drawing, in a doodle.
Architect Louis Khan said "The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building".
The theme of much of my work develops during the sketching process. Once a theme is decided, detailing is added and then colour if required
Cityscape Jerusalem
The Colonialist
So There You Are
We know that artists have changed the colours of a work by using different techniques and media such as silk-screen, etching, Lino cuts, wood block & more.
His interest differed. I wanted to know and understand how different colours affect a viewer's response to the same work...and this led to digital art and the OPUS Series - from my sketches to a digital painting
A computer monitor became a canvas and apps became my brush, paints, pastels, inks and pencils.
The MOTIF Series
Using digitized segments of a finished painting & then combining them to make a new digital painting
Would the great Masters have used modern technology if it had been available?
Rodney believes they would have; think Warhol and Hockney.
OPUS 37 - BK
OPUS 37 - GY
Orange Landscape to MOTIF 332
Acrylic On Raised Birch Panel
MOTIF 332 - A
MOTIF 332 - C
Abstraction
Always having flirted with Abstract Art I often find myself crossing over to this form.
As I continue on this journey in Abstraction,
"I have spent wonderful times discovering what I can create without emotion or reality"
"Let the creation be a visual and cerebral experience of colour, shape, form and texture"
Conundrum
Acrylic On Stretched Canvas
MOTIF 332 - A
Rodney's work is in Private Collections in Canada, Australia, South Africa, US, Israel, Germany & England.