Dianne Heesom Green - Fine art, Ceramics and Sculptures

In the quaint village of Paternoster, Dianne Heesom-Green has carved a niche for both her ceramics studio; to be found perched alongside its only main road, and her family who live symbiotically with the wild tides of a private sea cove.

For the five years after Matriculating, Dianne Heesom-Green studied Art and Education at the Natal Art School and at the University of Natal, majoring in Sculpture. Feeling that a teaching post was a little too premature and considering she knew nothing about anything except school and books, She left Natal in 1981 and moved to Cape Town. After 12 years of designing and working within the computer and forms industry in Cape Town and in England; Dianne Heesom-Green decided high finance and corporate life could do without her and returned to Cape Town in 1995.

Finally, knowing a little more about life, Dianne felt ready to teach and opened a ceramic studio in Cape Town. Since then she has been teaching and exploring the ceramic medium. Dianne Heesom-Green has exhibited work at the Bellville Art Centre and the most recent exhibition, "Follow Me, I'm Right Behind You" was at the KKNK in Oudshoorn, 2007.

Stone Fish Studio

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Kayaking

Dianne Heesom-Green has a passion for sea-kayaking and runs Kayak Paternoster, a guided sea kayaking experience, from her studio. More on West Coast Kayaking tours in Paternoster.

Dianne explains, "Kayaking is a doorway or a gateway to pass into a reflective state. Out on the water one becomes aware of our own fragility and insignificance - human life, from out at sea, seems trivial on the planetary scale. The sea is emotionless and doesn't have to define itself, it just as it has been forever, will be forever, it does not cease. For me, being out on the water defines my reality, there is no need for words, everything just is."

When you are on the sea you create from a place of knowing.

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Clay is of the earth and can change its costume depending on the stage setting. Clay is responsive to the inner state of the maker, while being moulded, it moulds the maker.