Having spent many months in France and Italy, Avryl has been greatly inspired by the magnificent colour and surroundings. Born in South Africa, and brought up in the magnificent surroundings of the Cape - from dramatic seascape, landscapes to wine farms peppered with Cape Dutch style gables nestled amongst ragged mountain ranges - proffered a huge impression on my artistic tendencies as a young ch
ild. I have travelled extensively, absorbing and admiring the cultural pleasures of the world at our feet, the time warps found in far away lands: the cobble streets of Italy; the bicycle paths of the French countryside; and the endless exquisite flora and fauna that offers such simple pleasures! My travels have brought with them numerous Art and Culinary courses and skills which I now apply to my work. However, the cut and thrust of the financial world left little time other than to try capture on camera the sheer beauty of aged form and substance that has survived the onslaught of human endeavour. Happily, I have now unleashed my suppressed desire for creativity - which was always carried out on a smaller scale... a creativity fuelled by the exposure to the Provencal, Tuscan and Moroccan lifestyle and surroundings.
