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Isak van der Walt owner of IVDW Art is a private individual in his fifties. He was actively involved in art and music in his younger days and had some private art tutelage from a couple of well-known local artists.

He has a degree in Computer Science and had a successful career in the IT industry for the last 30 years, working in a number of African countries as well as England and Australia. He has travelled widely both for business and pleasure during this time.

Recently circumstances changed and he was able to become creatively involved again. He took this opportunity to combine three of his main interests namely computers, visual arts and photography and combined them into a unique art form.

It is difficult to classify his art as it involves photography, sketching, painting, using computer tools and sometimes computer generated images, often combined in layers to create complex abstract pieces. He certainly uses the available tools for manipulating and integrating colour, form and texture to the full. Is is left to the imagination of the observer to guess where one technique starts and another ends.

Although he paints and sketches in the conventional way, he primarily sees himself as a digital artist. By this he means that a computer is involved extensively in the creative process. It is exciting to him that once a digital artwork has been created it can be reproduced in theoretically any size and on a wide variety of output media. The starting point of an artwork is anything that can be captured digitally either by photograph, scanning or digitizing, or obtained using computer tools.

His work is mostly based on things in the artist's immediate environment such as objects he has collected during his travels, plants, rocks and other objects in his garden and people he knows.

The artist's workflow consists of choosing a theme and then producing a number of variations of the theme. A few of the best variations are chosen and offered as limited edition artworks. An artwork called "Bamboo Girl 60601011" belongs to the "Bamboo Girl" series (theme) and the number uniquely identifies the variation on the theme.

The artist has had several successful one man exhibitions locally and some of his work is listed on overseas art web sites.

The artist can be contacted here.

 

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