Sunshine Through the Clouds

Original acrylic painting on hardboard

Available for purchase

Sunshine Through the Clouds captures a quiet moment of shifting weather and open land — when light breaks through after grey, and the landscape seems to breathe again.

Painted in layered acrylics on hardboard, the work reflects a homestead amidst the expansive calm of the Swartland: wide fields, distant hills, and a sky that refuses to settle. The light is not dramatic, but patient — moving slowly across grass and water, revealing colour in stages.

This is a painting about space and pause. About standing still long enough to notice how light changes everything, even when nothing else moves.

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A note from the studio

This painting is quietly responsible for me becoming known for sheep — even though there isn’t one in sight.

When I first painted Sunshine Through the Clouds, I put a sheep in the foreground. It was so unsuccessful that I painted over it entirely. I was forced to acknowledge I didn’t yet know how to paint animals that belonged naturally in my landscapes — without slipping into caricature or stiff realism.

It was this frustration that led me to sit down and practise painting sheep, in the end producing one of my most popular images, Karoo Lamb.

Artwork Details

Medium: Acrylic on Hardboard

Frame: Contemporary, white-painted wood

Size: 45 × 63 x 5cm (framed)

Subject: Swartland homestead, Western Cape

Enquiries

This original artwork is available for purchase.

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