the night garden
Hermann Niebuhr
the night garden
The night garden is a collection of paintings that have occupied me for the last year. They were born of a series of electricity cuts in the country which had me going into the garden at night, to explore what would be revealed durning the ‘load shedding’ / ‘blackout’ times of total darkness. Armed with a torch and a camera I set about looking for the treasures which were waiting to the revealed.
An analogy to the mystic path of uncovering the treasure within is at play. As selective light plays onto the plant/ flower and the viewer witnesses it, so its mysterious, magical true nature is revealed.
The paintings produced in the studio are an equivalent of this experience. These are not mere botanical studies but rather alchemical formulas revealing the mystery that lays hidden until seen in the purity of night.
These paintings hold a charge, they reveal something of the natural world, which is ‘hidden in plain sight’.
Hermann Niebuhr, 202375 x 75 cm
Cana Indica
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
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Aloe ferox
Bromelia
Oil on canvas
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Strelizia
Oil on canvas
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Agave sisalana
Oil on canvas
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Echinopsis pachanoi
Oil on canvas
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Ipomoea purpurea
Oil on canvas
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Zantedeschia aethiopica
Oil on canvas
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Watsonia
Oil on canvas
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Nymphaeaceae
Oil on canvas
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Pelargonium
Oil on canvas
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Epiphyllum oxypetalum
Oil on canvas
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Euphorbia milii
Oil on canvas
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Epiphyllum oxypetalum
Oil on canvas
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Tropaeolum
Oil on canvas
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Epiphylum cactus
Oil on canvas
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Cana indica
Oil on canvas
75 x 75 cm
Protea cynaroides
Oil on canvas
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Dietes grandiflora
Oil on canvas
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Echinopsis cactus
Oil on canvas
75 x 75 cm
