“Creativity is another word for courage.” Henri Matisse

Extremely popular contemporary South African artist, Ann Gadd’s work hangs in galleries both locally and in New Zealand and the UK as well as in collections worldwide. Such is the popularity of her “Sheep” series of works, that she is arguably South Africa’s best selling female artist.

Exhibitions:

Ann has held numerous local exhibitions and exhibited overseas at the Zohar Gallery, New Zealand and in Florence at the 2007 Biennale. Her first solo exhibition was at the AVA in Cape Town. Recently she was invited to open the Woman’s Day exhibition at the Blou Donki in Clarens in August.

The Story of Ewe:

Ewe was tired of having the wool pulled over her eyes. Working for a large flock, she was tired of being fleeced by those with more R.A.M. In the corporate flock her stock options were limited to being roast lamb or someone’s new sweater. Neither were appealing. So she decided to see if the grass was greener on the other side. She told them politely to flock off and set off to find the real ewe. At times she felt like a lost sheep and had to do several ewe-turns until she found the path that best suited her. One day she found ewe-topia and was ewe-phoric. That’s where she’s been living ever since.

Why I paint sheep:

I had been painting seriously since 1997 - mostly landscapes, still lives etc in bright expressionistic colours. I painted my first sheep in 2002. It was called “The sheep who studied astrology.” I enjoyed doing it and it sold, so later that year I painted a couple of versions of Ambitious sheep. They sold, however I never really gave them too much thought, until 2006 when I had hit the creative doldrums. Nothing seemed to work anymore and I felt like stopping painting altogether. I seemed stuck creatively and did not know where to head. With two children to support and the usual bonds etc, the financial pressure was uncomfortable.

It was a freezing day, rain pouring down, and I was in the garage, which I used as a studio then. I kept hearing this inner voice saying paint sheep, paint sheep, and I’m like “yeah right people are going to want paintings of sheep!” Anyhow decided what the hell and so painted my first two sheep. I took them to a well known art gallery/dealer who loved them. I did seven more and took them to another gallery who snapped them up. Four days later they called and said they had sold those and asked for more. Over 2,000 sheep later, the rest as they say is history!

Commission your own ewenique Ewe.

• Want to surprise a friend or partner with a gift that’s ewenique?
• Have a colleague with a birthday who literally has everything?
• Tired of the usual bottle of Scotch?
• Need art for your company that relates to your products or what you do?

Ann will create paintings especially for ewe. Just supply details of your company/colleague/loved one and she’ll come up with a couple of ideas for you to choose from or discuss with her any specific thoughts of your own. Delivery will be within two weeks from order (unless she is overseas exhibiting etc).

Some Commissions/paintings sold to/undertaken:

• Datuk Vinod Sekhar - Founder and majority owner of privately held Petra Group, Malaysia
• Absolute Hotel, Limerick, Ireland
• RCS Cards Head Office
• Teaser’s
• Eish and Yebo
• The Incredible Chocolate Company (Australia)
• South African Institute of Chartered Accountants
• Dr Eva Cwynar - well known Californian Physician
• Gift for Whitey Basson (Pepkor)
• A G computer accounting cc
• Intakatech: I was commissioned to do a painting for each of the directors including Tokyo Sexwale.
• Jan S. de Villiers attorneys saw Corporate Merger, he just had to have it for the foyer of their new offices, as the deal with many corporate mergers.
• Bpas Architects at the Tygervalley Waterfront
• Louis Caroll architects
• GVI Oncology Tygervalley
• RMS Betty Accountants
• Siyanqoba Seminars
• Opus Cubed
• Corporate Placements
• Media Edge
• CEO Radison Hotel Belgium
• SAB Miller

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