About the Artist - Di Heesom-Green

About Dianne Heesom GreenDi lives and works in the small fishing village of Paternoster.  Inspiration for most of her work comes kayaking at sea and observations of life.

She studied art in Natal, majored in Sculpture and qualified HDE Art.  After living and working in Johannesburg, England and America within the computer industry, she settled back in Cape Town in 1995 and began working in clay.

From her busy studio The Potting Shed Cape Town, she taught until moving to Paternoster in 2005 and opened Stone Fish Studio.
In 2008 the studio moved to a bigger stone building to facillitate her gallery, classes and winter workshops. 

Exhibitions

Serendipity - Dorp Street Stellenbosch 2004
Ceramic SA Regional Exhibition 2004 -  Art B
Surface Deep – Framers Workroom Cape Town 2005 Ceramic  SA Regional Exhibition 2005 -  award winner
Curators Choice - KKNK 2006
Ceramic SA National Exhibition - Artscape 2006
Follow me I’m Right Behind You - KKNK 2007
Ceramic SA Regional Exhibition - Artscape 2007
Ceramic Keramiek - De Kraal Gallery 2007
Off The Wall Opening - Paarl 2007
Calligraphy Collaboration – Brugge 2007
Wings of Light Feet of Clay – New York 2008
RegionalExhibition 2008 – Best on Show
Falling from my Mind - 2009
Rust En Vrede 2010 - Maquette

Galleries

Stone Fish Studio and Gallery - Paternoster
Kim Sacs – Gauteng
Articles and Frames – Pretoria
Stone Fish Studio – Paternoster
De Kraal Gallery - Paarl
Off the Wall - Paarl
Pretoria Museum of Art - permanent collection
G2 Art – Cape Town

Collections

I and J Fisheries – Cape Town
Christiaan Diedericks - Gauteng
Theo Kleynhans – Cape Town
Blackie Montgomery - Montague
Hennie Meyer - Durbanville
Donve Branch – Port Elizabeth
Corobrick Collection - Pretoria

For me, any experience be it book movie or art piece should be either entertaining, uplifting or enlightening. Without one of these qualities, precious time is wasted on futility.

I feel art is about communication. A tripartite occurrence in time involving universal truth, conduit and recipient. It has taken me 50 years to mature enough to begin expressing my feelings through art. There is only enough time left to tackle the important messages.....and have fun doing it.