- Samuel Pretorius
- Landscape Artist.
- Menifee. California. United States
Samuel’s Art Statement:
My aim is to create art that evokes memories of places and people. A fleeting image that you long to see again, a landscape that you will never forget, or a place you yearn to visit, captured in a few brush strokes to hold on to that memory forever. I have worked in many different mediums in the past, but now I focus on Acrylic because I like applying fresh brush strokes without waiting. I only use three colors, each in two different pigments, red, yellow, blue, and of course white. My palette currently consists of Alizarin Crimson and Cadmium Red Light for red, Ultramarine and Phtalo Blue, Cadmium Yellow and Primary Yellow, and Titanium White. These all combine to give me fresh colors that are vibrant and alive on the canvas. I am originally from South Africa, and I come from a family of artists that encouraged me from an early age to paint and draw. In primary school, my art was included in a national exhibition at the Pretoria Art Museum.
In South Africa, I started building up the experience by exhibiting my work at local art galleries and participating in open markets, Plein air painting, and exhibitions on a monthly basis. Life happened and I had to switch focus to my corporate career. Not creating art made me feel like there was a hole in my soul. Recently, after I became a US Citizen, I felt drawn back to making art, I could not stay away from my brushes and paint anymore. I love creating art because of the beauty of nature, the enthrallment of making a brush stroke I like, a fascination with the world around me, and the joy it brings to people.
ARTWORKS FOR SALE BY SAMUEL PRETORIUS