Description
“Medicine Man Aloe Ferox”
- 36x18in.
- Oil on Canvas
- Unframed
I painted this Aloe Ferox with East Somerset in my heart. The genus has prominent components of many, mainly arid, African landscapes. There are currently roughly 600 different aloes recognised. Members of the genus can be found in Africa (± 405), the Arabian Peninsula (± 45), Socotra (4), Madagascar (± 145) and the Mascarene and other Western Indian Ocean Islands Ferox can grow into giants of over 30 feet.
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Xanthorrhoeaceae
Subfamily: Asphodeloideae
Genus: Aloe
Species: A. vera
About Me:
As a young man I was always outside observing my surroundings. I graduated from Elsenburg College Stellenbosch in South Africa with degrees in Agriculture, Horticulture, and Oenology. I first specialized in growing roses and fruit trees in the Eastern Cape region where I taught local farm workers to play rugby and established a rugby league while they taught me how to speak their native tongue, Xhosa.
I traveled the world extensively and then settled in Tucson, Arizona where I live with my wife Sarah and two sons James and Gordon. Sarah, Yale educated in art history, finally put the palette knife in my hand. I am self-taught and express what comes naturally to me. My paintings are full of movement, deep and rich. I let the moment, mood, and my education of the subject, inspire my art.
