Lilabstracts

Profile

My name is Adri Botha and I’m based in Cape Town, South Africa.

My art is a true extension of myself a free flowing energy within ever changing and moving forward. An emotional landscape captured on canvas using rich colours, texture and shape.

My Technique:

Bulletism is one of the techniques I am using. It’s an artistic process that involves shooting ink at a blank piece of paper. The result is a type of ink blot. (Inkblot tests used in psychology which is designed to let a person respond to ambiguous stimuli, presumably revealing hidden emotions & internal conflict.)

Salvador Dalí claimed to have invented this technique. Leonardo da Vinci, however, suggested that “just as one can hear any desired syllable in the sound of a bell, so one can see any desired figure in the shape formed by throwing a sponge doused with ink against the wall.”

Another technique I am using is the “movement of liquid down a vertical surface”, as the name suggests, a technique, invented by surrealists from Romania and said by them to be sur automatic and a form of indecipherable writing, of making pictures by dripping or allowing to flow some form of liquid down a vertical surface.