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      Anthony Gadd

      What gets me into my studio every morning?

      It’s quite simple—that exquisite feeling when the magic comes out of your hands and everything just works.

      Anthony was born in 1955 in the game farming area of South Africa. His subject matter is strongly influenced by these memories of unspoiled landscapes, teeming with wildlife. His art could be classified as contemporary semi-abstract, while his style is bold, loose, and expressive. His chosen media are acrylic and chalk on stretched canvas.

      Anthony holds permanent exhibitions in five galleries, and has had numerous solo and group exhibitions during his 17-year artistic career.

      Anthony lives in Cape Town with his talented author-artist wife, Ann. When he is not painting, he loves escaping into the rugged African bush in search of reference and inspiration.

      "I believe creativity is the "clock spring" of life.
      Whether you create a business empire or a salad,
      the process of creating is what energizes and drives us.
      The journey during each creation is so compelling that the process simply drives itself.”

       

      ARTWORK STYLE

      Artist Anthony Gadd has an exceptionally rich spectrum of professional and personal experience, abilities and talents to draw from. His experience in design, gleaned from his days as a creative director, has blended well with his instinctive use of a variety of mediums and his ability to draw with unerring accuracy.

      In the early stages of his South African art career Anthony Gadd focused on watercolours, with nudes, wildlife and landscapes as his primary subjects. He then explored a unique medium - metal, taking sections of road maps of areas in South Africa. Metal is the building material of the majority of homes in South Africa and consequently perfect to mirror the urban African landscape. The metal’s rust properties gave his South African landscape art an organic and unique appearance.

      At first it seemed hard, strange and non-absorbent compared to canvas. As he experimented, he saw the different effects one could obtain, particularly when the unpredictability of rusting areas is involved. Many sheets of metal later, he came to understand this new media and to enjoy its special properties. A large commission for a Gauteng Conference centre was the culmination of this exploration.

      Later this South African landscape artist began working in bright dynamic colour combinations in loose landscapes on watercolour paper using acrylic focusing on areas of the Cape, West Coast and Karoo.

      More recently he has started combining up to six different mediums, creating richly toned, textural feeling to his subjects which include trees, nudes and landscapes in his art and paintings. He is a skilled draughtsman, and is able to move from realism to abstraction-ism with ease.

      Anthony Gadd as an artist has matured from his original, more realistic style to become looser, fresher and more abstract in his later South African Paintings. His fresh approach has appealed to the public and galleries and in a short space of time he has become a very successful artist.

       

      EXHIBITIONS 

      This South African landscape artist won the South African Society of Artists award for best mixed media in their annual exhibition, participated in a number of solo and group exhibitions and is frequently commissioned. Gallery owners and the general public are excited by his unique and dynamic concepts and approach to art, and in a remarkably short space of time he has made an impact on the South African art world. There is a strong demand for his works, which now hang in most top South African galleries.

      “I don’t know that artists wholly control the meaning of their work. Meaning accrues. This almost alchemical process motivates a never ending search for fresh magic." – Anthony Gadd on his personal motivation.

      SHOP ANTHONY GADD COLLECTION

      Diesel the Wild Dog by Anthony Gadd $2,060
      Mrs. Tripod the Giraffe by Anthony Gadd $2,060
      Quick Silver the Third by Anthony Gadd $1,950
      Quick Silver the Second by Anthony Gadd $1,950
      Bubbles the Baby Elephant by Anthony Gadd $2,060
      Zebedee the Rhino by Anthony Gadd $1,420
      Angus the Buffalo by Anthony Gadd $1,775
      Silver the Elephant by Anthony Gadd $2,065
      The Jumper - Kudu by Anthony Gadd $2,065
      African Desert Sky | Acacia Tree by Anthony Gadd $890
      Last Tree Standing | Acacia Tree by Anthony Gadd $890
      Survivor of the Desert | Acacia Tree by Anthony Gadd $1,775
      Umsasane | Acacia Tree by Anthony Gadd $1,775
      Scarlet Blaze | Acacia Tree by Anthony Gadd $1,775
      Splendid Acacia | Acacia Tree by Anthony Gadd $595
      Umbrella Thorn Tree | Acacia Tree by Anthony Gadd $890
      Haak en Steek Boom | Acacia Tree by Anthony Gadd $595
      Mogaba | Acacia Tree by Anthony Gadd $890
      Silky Thorns | Acacia Tree by Anthony Gadd $890
      The Camel Thorn Tree | Acacia Tree by Anthony Gadd $890
      The Only One | Acacia Tree by Anthony Gadd $890
      South African Red Earth by Anthony Gadd $890
      The Rooi Afrika | Acacia Tree by Anthony Gadd $890
      Mti wa Acacia by Anthony Gadd $890
      Acacia in Red by Anthony Gadd $890
      Bolt the Fast Runner | Rhino by Anthony Gadd $1,950
      Wild Dog Stare by Anthony Gadd $2,065
      Sunset Lion by Anthony Gadd $2,065
      Along the West Coast by Anthony Gadd $1,775
      African Dawn by Anthony Gadd $1,775
      Desert Candle by Anthony Gadd $890
      The Acacia Tree by Anthony Gadd $890
      Amandala by Anthony Gadd $1,950
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