ART CLASSES

Christiaan is an art renewal enthusiast and believes in the value of representational art. He admires the work of John Singer Sargent, Jeremy Lipking, Jules Lefébvre, Dame Laura Knight, and Anders Zorn, among others. He believes that beauty is a celebration of life and points to the divine. Beauty matters not because it promotes vanity, but because true beauty is a strong antidote to the all-prevailing meaning crises of our age. He strongly recommends his adult students watch Sir Roger Scruton’s Why Beauty Matters on Vimeo.

His methods are based on atelier-style teaching. He does not passively present classes, but also regularly works on a piece of art during the lessons, which gives his students the opportunity to ask questions and learn through observation and example-based explanations. At the same time, students have the opportunity to create their own work under his guidance.

(Without proper drawing skills, the quality of a student’s oil painting will suffer. Therefore, drawing lessons will be incorporated into the classes, when deemed necessary).

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Christiaan has ten years’ experience teaching young students. He also worked at a non-profit organisation from 2017 to 2022, where he created multi-media materials for children, including animations. He is fluent in Afrikaans and English, but can also communicate in conversation-level German and basic-level French.

Art classes are offered in person in Potchefstroom, and online over ClassIn and Zoom.