Images
View All Featured Best Sellers Recently Sold Today's New Uploads Today's New CommentsProducts
Canvas Prints Framed Prints Art Prints Posters Greeting Cards More...Medium
Photographs Paintings Digital Art Drawings More...Extra
Search by Color Popular Keywords Recently Sold Prints Recently Sold Greeting Cards Print Instagram on Canvas
Cape Town, We - South Africa
Ilse Kleyn - Fine Artist
Member Since: 10/22/2007
Since my hands could hold a pencil, I started to draw on anything I could find. I am the third generation on my mother's side who shows artistic talent.
After high school, I started a career in the South African Police Service as a Police artist, drawing wanted criminals, stolen goods, designing pamphlets, posters, ext. My background as an identikit artist laid the foundation for my exquisite style.
I only started to paint with acrylic late in the 1990's, doing small projects only for family and friends. Soon I discovered the magic of painting in oil and never looked back.
After a career of 16 years in the South African Police Service, I pursued my dream and started painting full time in 2006.
View all my latest work on my own website : www.artofkleyn.co.za
I am intrigued with the human form, mind and spirit. I strife to capture the human being's character. To portray the essence of the soul, the human being's frustration, pride, strength, love, wisdom and passion.
My work is evolving in a style of my own, precise, full of detail, rich with color and depth. It is growing as I am growing. It is my passion to paint time-less paintings with a message to all generations. Not just a peace of art to decorate a room.