About Nola
“I am still living a playful life between the ocean and the mountains of the Cape Peninsula. From a young age I was fascinated by the creatures in the intertidal coastal rock pools at Dalebrook and equally awed by the towering mountains above Kirstenbosch.
My creative talent was fueled by being in the sea as a ‘Longboarder’ from the 1960’s. I learnt about the moods of a breaking wave. It was a fortunate lifestyle also hiking through our magnificent fynbos on the slopes of the Table Mountain National Park.
Observation translates into my interpretation of painting the elements, floral colours and dramatic structure of boulders and rocks.
Subjects that don’t require distortion but familiar rendering in both watercolours and oils.
If I pull up to the roadside on Chapmans Peak Pass, it is not because of a puncture, it is because I so often stop on my bicycle to observe the foamy pulse between the sea and the cliffs.
So it is in a full circle that I come back to painting ‘familiar places’. “
Past Solo Exhibitions
2025 NOORDHOEK ARTPOINT – GEMS
2020 CAPE GALLERY – CAPE TOWN
2019 STUDIO ART GALLERY – SIMONSTOWN
2016 CAPE GALLERY ~ CAPE TOWN
2014 THE STUDIO KALK BAY ~ CAPE TOWN
2012 THE STUDIO KALK BAY ~ CAPE TOWN
2010 FINE ART GALLERY ~ SWAKOPMUND
2009 CAPE GALLERY ~ CAPE TOWN
2008 CAPE GALLERY ~ CAPE TOWN
2006 RED THE GALLERY ~ STEENBERG
2003 ASSOCIATION OF ART ~ PRETORIA
2002 SPRING SHOW ~ HOUT BAY
2001 CAPE GALLERY ~ CAPE TOWN
1999 “ARTS-INTER” ~ FRANCE
1997 THE MUSCHEL ~ SWAKOPMUND
1994 CONSTANTIA VILLAGE ~ CAPE TOWN
1987 CHELSEA GALLERY ~ CAPE TOWN
1986 OFFICE DU TOURISME ~ FRANCE
1985 CAPE GALLERY ~ CAPE TOWN
1983 CAPE GALLERY ~ CAPE TOWN
1982 CAPE GALLERY ~ CAPE TOWN
1981 KUNSTKABINET ~ WINDHOEK
1981 CAPE GALLERY ~ CAPE TOWN
1980 CAPE GALLERY ~ CAPE TOWN
1979 CAPE GALLERY ~ CAPE TOWN
1978 CAPE GALLERY ~ CAPE TOWN
1976 IN-FIN-ART ~ CAPE TOWN