ABOUT JOLANTE
Birthplace: Johannesburg
Current city: Pretoria
www.jolantehesseart.com
www.solutionsteam.co.za
www.jopasso.co.za
e-mail: [email protected]
Birthplace: Johannesburg
Current city: Pretoria
www.jolantehesseart.com
www.solutionsteam.co.za
www.jopasso.co.za
e-mail: [email protected]
2004, whilst working as part of a hotel opening team in
Mombasa, Kenya, JOLANTE HESSE survived a panga attack.
She started drawing after the attack and found the process
both therapeutic and calming. Her recovery took about a year.
Although she was, and still is involved in her career, she started
thinking about developing her love for art and painting and in
2010 began attending painting classes
While Jolante had taken art at school, she did
not pursue it although she did draw from time
to time. Throughout her life she devoured
books on art and visited galleries in her spare
time when on working assignments across
the world. She had always harbored a secret
desire to paint in oils although she never really
believed it would happen. At the age of 5, she
was mesmerised by a Frans Hals portrait and
dreamed of one day being able to ‘do that’.
When the opportunity came to take art classes
with Gillian Taylor and Danie de Wet, she
grabbed it. It was then that she discovered the
joy and pain of the creative process. “I was
passionate and serious about it from the start.”
In 2012 she met her current art teacher
and collaborator Leon Fourie. In line with her personality, Jolante sought technical
proficiency before artistic expression. This enabled her to
create a foundation that she could have faith in. “I need to
know exactly how materials can be used and must have the
confi dence to trust my skills. It is just how my head works. My
left brain wants to know that if I paint a painting, it will look
the way I painted it 300 years from now, without it fading
or disintegrating. I want to create texture, life, vibrancy and
value changes without necessarily having to apply thick paint
or relying on the ‘accident’.”
She has something of a love/hate relationship with painting:
“It is a daily inner fi ght that is redeemed by those rare
moments when you ‘get it right’.”
Jolante enjoys the struggle of both drawing and painting. “I
love looking intently at something and trying to portray in
paint, exactly what I see. Maybe one day I will achieve that”.
(JolanteHesseartissue18...SAAArtist..2014)
Mombasa, Kenya, JOLANTE HESSE survived a panga attack.
She started drawing after the attack and found the process
both therapeutic and calming. Her recovery took about a year.
Although she was, and still is involved in her career, she started
thinking about developing her love for art and painting and in
2010 began attending painting classes
While Jolante had taken art at school, she did
not pursue it although she did draw from time
to time. Throughout her life she devoured
books on art and visited galleries in her spare
time when on working assignments across
the world. She had always harbored a secret
desire to paint in oils although she never really
believed it would happen. At the age of 5, she
was mesmerised by a Frans Hals portrait and
dreamed of one day being able to ‘do that’.
When the opportunity came to take art classes
with Gillian Taylor and Danie de Wet, she
grabbed it. It was then that she discovered the
joy and pain of the creative process. “I was
passionate and serious about it from the start.”
In 2012 she met her current art teacher
and collaborator Leon Fourie. In line with her personality, Jolante sought technical
proficiency before artistic expression. This enabled her to
create a foundation that she could have faith in. “I need to
know exactly how materials can be used and must have the
confi dence to trust my skills. It is just how my head works. My
left brain wants to know that if I paint a painting, it will look
the way I painted it 300 years from now, without it fading
or disintegrating. I want to create texture, life, vibrancy and
value changes without necessarily having to apply thick paint
or relying on the ‘accident’.”
She has something of a love/hate relationship with painting:
“It is a daily inner fi ght that is redeemed by those rare
moments when you ‘get it right’.”
Jolante enjoys the struggle of both drawing and painting. “I
love looking intently at something and trying to portray in
paint, exactly what I see. Maybe one day I will achieve that”.
(JolanteHesseartissue18...SAAArtist..2014)