Greg in front of "Transfer", an oil and charcoal on canvas, one of the works in his latest exhibition.

Please excuse the shameless promotion of my mate, artist Greg Schultz, but I went to the opening of his new exhibition last night and it was truly fabulous. Big works which took over the whole of the Ann Bryant Art Gallery in East London.

Greg lives on the Kwelera River in the Eastern Cape and it drives his art in every way, with his love of the land and water and wind flowing through all his wonderful paintings.

His latest exhibition, called “Traces”, features twelve very large  – 2.5m x 1.6m – oil and mixed-media paintings (and an animated film projection). They are huge expanses of intense detail, alive with colour and movement.

(The exhibition runs at the Ann Bryant Gallery in East London’s CBD till  July 7th.)

Greg with the blank canvasses that became "Traces".

Born and raised in East London, Greg was head of department of art and design at the Buffalo City College before becoming a full-time artist in 2007.

He holds regular exhibitions at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown and his work has found its way into prestigious collection around the country.

He is becoming one of South Africa’s premier landscape painters and if I had the bucks, I’d acquire one for sure.

But don’t mind my ramblings, rather feast your eyes on the works below that are in the the latest exhibition (and click here to go to Greg’s website):

ABOVE: “Moon Path” was created out of oil, charcoal, wax, paper, gold and silver leaf, fire and water. Schultz started using fire and water as a medium in 2005 by which he sets painting alight and controls it with water. To see how this works, click here and start up the video entitled “Greg Schultz – Burn”.

"Pulse", an oil and charcoal work.

This work, called "One Hundred and Ninety Tins – Creative Cycle Part III", was made from oil, glue, graphite and 190 tuna tins on canvas and supawood.

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