We have an enormous task at hand in keeping our children safe on the road. Our children as road users need our help more than ever before. By purchasing a raffle ticket, or two, you will ad volume to our voice when we speak up for them.
Barnard, a watercolour artist has graciously donated two of her paintings for this purpose. The first prize is an arrangement of orchids that received a special mention in a recent competition by the International Watercolour Society of South Africa. The second prize is a study of elegant egrets in water. Their calm, yet colourful magic will grace any wall in your house or office.
Jo Barnard is a master of her technique and the depth and illusion of dimension that manages to create, makes her paintings come to life. The artist lovingly explores her limited pallet of the primary colours by allowing the flow of water and pigment to guide her. Mastering the technique of negative painting allows her, once the throwing has dried, to venture and find interesting shapes and designs she loves.
Jo has an eye for the beauty of nature whether submerged below waterlevel or thriving above. She finds beautiful shapes among the animal life she adores so much. Whether it is full of turtles, exotic orchids, or white egrets, she features them among idyllic environments.
How does it work?
We listed the raffle on an online platform called Raffall. It is a safe portal that manages all aspects of the raffle from managing the entries, payments and selecting the winners from the participants and only pay out our takings once receipt of the prize has been confirmed. Simply follow the link
Register by signing up
Your contact details will be verified
Click on the “Enter” tab
Load credits to the amount of tickets you want to purchase
and purchase a ticket or 2. The currency on the site is in pounds, and a Rand amount will be deducted from your account according to the exchange rate at the time
The tickets are valued at R300 each and there is a limited number of 300 available. The raffle closes at the end of October 2020
NB: Delivery within South Africa will be free of charge.
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” Helen Keller.
More about the artist
Jo Barnard is a South African artist whose work is strongly influenced by her many business trips to China and the Far East. While she was always drawn to watercolours, it was the Sumi-e method that she found exhilarating and challenging.
Sumi-e, sometimes known as black ink or ink wash painting, has its roots in Chinese calligraphy, with the paintings being considered as tangible poetry, expressing the artist’s spiritual connection and balance with the universe.
Barnard was fortunate to have received training in this demanding technique as well as watercolour classes from a Chinese master painter, who taught her how to blend Eastern and Western styles. While this technique of watercolour is slow and painstaking, yet the overall effect that Barnard achieves is of spontaneity and immediacy. It is here that she particularly excels, as not only does she capture the appearance of her subjects at a moment in time, she captures their spirit, their essence of being.
Barnard uses the most delicate stains and hints of colour in her work. The suggestive but fragile lines of these translucent studies often have the leitmotif of water, presenting it as habitat, or possibly the essential component of being. But she includes flowers like peonies in her repertoire, not only fish, turtles and water birds such as egrets, penguins and cranes.
She has a master’s touch in combining colour, line, and shading, giving the effect of multiple layers, as one is drawn from the surface of the painting, deeper and deeper into the scene depicted.
There are no solid blocks of colour or shape: this inconsistency and juxtaposition suggest not only the sometimes-erratic movement of water, but the transience of each subject or scene and, indeed life itself. And the shifting colours cape hints at the dappled effects of light on water, and its constant movement.
For all their intricacies, Barnard’s works are clean and simple, making as much use of empty space as they do of detail and colour: a powerful combination. She has shown herself to be totally in control of her subject and her method.