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ArtMode to hold Eat, Paint, Love FestivalThe Palms in Woodstock, Cape Town, will be the venue for the latest ArtMode event, Eat, Paint, Love, which adds a live music component to the art festival on Saturday, 12 December, 2015, at 6pm till late. One of Artmode's most successful innovations is that it allows visitors to meet and watch some of the artists at work. ![]() This year painter Hugo Maritz is participating. Maritz was born in Windhoek in 1975. After matriculating at Linden High School, Joburg in 1993, he obtained a BA (Philosophy and Psychology) degree at the Rand Afrikaans University. Although he never studied art, he started drawing at a very young age. In 1993 well-known arts critic and lecturer Nico van Rensburg took him under his wing and taught him more about composition and painting. As a child, Maritz spent a most of his time drawing comic strip characters, which is where he developed his sense of proportion. As his ability grew, his style developed towards realism, which laid an important foundation for his future work. He has since moved towards a more abstract and cubist style in his paintings. Maritz has done 11 solo exhibitions and he exhibited his work for the first time at the age of 15. He has an enthusiastic following in South Africa and abroad, with works in private and corporate collections worldwide. His paintings consist of a many-layered approach that start with acrylics and end with oils. He begins with sharp contrasts in black and white, and then refines the composition to different scales of colour from dark to light, revealing the final work by modulating the strength of contrasts to create a dance of focal points that gives aesthetic pleasure to the eye. Maritz is one of 30 gifted artists who are participating in Eat, Paint Love covering disciplines from painting and graffiti to charcoal drawing and mosaics. ![]() Graffiti: Wayne Bks Sculptures: Janko de Beer Charcoal drawing:* Callum Pickard Illustration: Marlize Eckard Food Trucks: Food we Love Performance: Sangisa Collective Mosaic:* Marcelino Manhula Painting: Isabella Chydenius Musicians: Vanessa Holliday For more information, contact az.oc.stpecnoceuqinuoy@ofni |