BIOGRAPHY:
Chanelle, is an established, professional artist, who was born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa in 1978.
Since her early childhood days she has had a love for drawing and working in colour. She is completely self taught, and started her full time career in 2005, exhibiting her work in art galleries around South Africa. Her work consists of farm landscapes, abstracts and flower paintings, focusing on creating decorative paintings to enlighten homes. She works in the medium acrylic and mixed media. Her work could be described as large, naive style paintings done in very bold colors.
In 2005 she started painting full time , after giving up her bookkeeping career.
In 2007 she bought a small art gallery in the Northern Suburbs of Cape Town, selling it a year later, to spend more time with her then newborn daughter, Katya.
In 2008 she decided to create a greeting card range, to help raise profits for the Starfish Greatheart Foundation, selling them to Exclusive Books and PNA branches Nationally.
In 2009 she sold paintings Nationally and Internationally, through various art galleries. She held her first solo exhibition, and exhibited at various art and wine festivals.
In 2010 she created a second range of greeting cards, a landscape series art print range and a art print range for children's rooms.
In 2011 Chanelle started giving private art classes to children of all ages. She completed another greeting card collection for a company called Jade in June.
In 2012 Chanelle focused on discovering new techniques to use in her artwork. She created a range of illustrations for a childrens book and her very first range of art dvd tutorials. Her dvd range, teaches kids age 4 - 12yrs, how to draw and colour in.
2013 Started slowly, after a long deserved break. This year my focus was about teaching and presenting art workshops to the young. I created a new range of art prints on wood , and tried my hand on several mural commissions.
In 2014 she focus on producing murals and paint techniques on walls. She continued teaching art to kids.
2015 proved to be a very productive year. She produced, and self published two "Let's draw" books. These books teaches kids aged 5 - 12yrs, how to draw and colour in. She also produced two adult colouring books, for publisher Struik Christian Media.
In 2016 she partnered with Don Nelson Publishing, and The Book People, creating 3 books for them to publish.
2017 and 2018 her focus returned to her original paintings. She created several new best selling collections. She has sold most of her work privately and will return to selling through art galleries by end of 2018.
My philosophy in life is keeping it simple. Less is more. That applies to my work and to the rest of my life. Mostly my art expresses my way of seeing things. If I had to describe my work in one sentence , I would say it is my version of beauty.”
Chanelle is well known for her paintings. Her name appears on more than two thousand works of art , proudly displayed in homes and offices locally and overseas.
“I truly feel blessed with all of my success up to now, and strongly believe it is due to faith, listening and following that inner voice, we all so desperately need to hear.''
She continues to produce pieces that have become a pleasure to so many homes.
Since her early childhood days she has had a love for drawing and working in colour. She is completely self taught, and started her full time career in 2005, exhibiting her work in art galleries around South Africa. Her work consists of farm landscapes, abstracts and flower paintings, focusing on creating decorative paintings to enlighten homes. She works in the medium acrylic and mixed media. Her work could be described as large, naive style paintings done in very bold colors.
In 2005 she started painting full time , after giving up her bookkeeping career.
In 2007 she bought a small art gallery in the Northern Suburbs of Cape Town, selling it a year later, to spend more time with her then newborn daughter, Katya.
In 2008 she decided to create a greeting card range, to help raise profits for the Starfish Greatheart Foundation, selling them to Exclusive Books and PNA branches Nationally.
In 2009 she sold paintings Nationally and Internationally, through various art galleries. She held her first solo exhibition, and exhibited at various art and wine festivals.
In 2010 she created a second range of greeting cards, a landscape series art print range and a art print range for children's rooms.
In 2011 Chanelle started giving private art classes to children of all ages. She completed another greeting card collection for a company called Jade in June.
In 2012 Chanelle focused on discovering new techniques to use in her artwork. She created a range of illustrations for a childrens book and her very first range of art dvd tutorials. Her dvd range, teaches kids age 4 - 12yrs, how to draw and colour in.
2013 Started slowly, after a long deserved break. This year my focus was about teaching and presenting art workshops to the young. I created a new range of art prints on wood , and tried my hand on several mural commissions.
In 2014 she focus on producing murals and paint techniques on walls. She continued teaching art to kids.
2015 proved to be a very productive year. She produced, and self published two "Let's draw" books. These books teaches kids aged 5 - 12yrs, how to draw and colour in. She also produced two adult colouring books, for publisher Struik Christian Media.
In 2016 she partnered with Don Nelson Publishing, and The Book People, creating 3 books for them to publish.
2017 and 2018 her focus returned to her original paintings. She created several new best selling collections. She has sold most of her work privately and will return to selling through art galleries by end of 2018.
My philosophy in life is keeping it simple. Less is more. That applies to my work and to the rest of my life. Mostly my art expresses my way of seeing things. If I had to describe my work in one sentence , I would say it is my version of beauty.”
Chanelle is well known for her paintings. Her name appears on more than two thousand works of art , proudly displayed in homes and offices locally and overseas.
“I truly feel blessed with all of my success up to now, and strongly believe it is due to faith, listening and following that inner voice, we all so desperately need to hear.''
She continues to produce pieces that have become a pleasure to so many homes.
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