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2016. October - Myoli Beach, Sedgefield, South Africa Fragments of the beachBreaking pieces of hardened sand and putting it on the unbroken layer of sandMyoli Beach, Sedgefield, South Africa  Holes in the SandUsing my finger to poke holes into the harder top layer of the sandMyoli Beach, Sedgefield, South Africa More
2016. 8/9 - 6/10 Stories of Rain: Global Nomadic Art Project Several Yatoo-i artists joined for the South African leg of the Global Nomadic Art Project from 8 September to 6 October in South Africa:Istvan Eross, Imke Rust, Anni Snyman, Strijdom van der Merwe, Kim Soonim, Mr. Ko, Mahmoud Maktabi, Marie Giyatri, Patrick Tagoe-Turkson We traveled throughout the country, visiting different sites which included farms, nature reserves, cultural centers and smal.. More
2016, 17 April, Cape Land Art Gathering Western Cape Land Art group, South Africa.Site: Tokai, Cape Town. Once a month a group of artists in Cape Town gathers in different local sites to create temporary, site-specific installations. April's gathering was in Cheryl Traub Adler's beautiful garden in transition in Tokai. We had a lot of materials to work with and had a lot of wonderful connecting - with the land, the plants, the dogs an.. More
2016, 14 February, Scarborough beach, Western Cape, South Africa More
2015, Wildekrans, Western Cape, South Africa - Bark leaves & Seed cocoon Work done at Wildekrans Country House in the Western Cape of South Africa, as part of an event by Site_Specific Leaf shape created from leaves carved from the bark of a fallen Eucalyptus Tree.Seed pod/Cocoon created from pear tree trimmings, attached to the tree with garden-wire More
2015, Wildekrans, Western Cape, South Africa - Leaves of Change "Leaves of Change"Site: Wildekrans Country House, Houw Hoek, Overberg, Western Cape, South AfricaMedium: Found wood, reeds, screws & hemp twine2015 “Step through the wind that rustle the leaves of trees, plants & weedson the slope of a mountain – fallen, standing, tallthe trees that read the memory of the leaves Defined shades and lines cast by the long limbs of the treesLet all the green leaves.. More
2015, The rocks of Brandvlei, Northern Cape, South Africa About Brandvlei (from Wikipedia):Brandvlei is a small town in the Karoo region of the Northern Cape, South Africa. This is where a 19th-century trekboer called Ou Brand settled. Brand camped at this spot at the Sakrivier, a dry river bed, which only occasionally had water after good rains – and which typically result in flash floods. This Brandvlei is located in the Bushmanland, also known as th.. More
2015, The Global Nomadic Art Project Korea II, Work by Janet Botes I had the privilege to be part of the group of artists for the second instalment in South Korea of the Global Nomadic Art Project (GNAP).  "Just as nomads, who obtain everything they need from nature the participating artists will get a new idea during travel country side in Korea, and leave their artistic imaginations in the fields like a wild flower. The artists move to and fro out of genuine .. More
2015, Dirt is Good Dirt is Good Process-based, time-based soil installation 27 February – 1 March 2015 THAT ART FAIR, Salt River, Cape Town, South Africa While creating the installation on the first day of the Art Fair, I invited people to add drawings and thoughts onto paper, which I then integrated into the soil drawing. Over the next two days of the Fair the installation changed as people walked over and throug.. More
2015, Matjiesfontein Ouroboros OUROBOROSMatjiesfontein, on the site of the Snake Eagle Thinking Path that forms part of the Karoo Geoglyph Project  Ouroboros or uroboros (/jʊərɵˈbɒrəs/; /ɔːˈrɒbɔrəs/, from the Greek οὐροβόρος ὄφις tail-devouring snake) is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail and it symbolizes the cyclic nature of the universe: creation out of destruction, Life out of Death. The o.. More
2014, Working on the Noordhoek Common, Western Cape, South Africa Carving/Digging a tiny trench to place and emphasize the structure of a plant stalkNoordhoek Common, Noordhoek, Western Cape, South AfricaJanet Botes2014   Fingerpainting a mud line or 'fake shadow' onto a cut tree trunk - a ghost image of a branch that were part of the tree.Noordhoek Common, Noordhoek, Western Cape, South AfricaJanet Botes2014   Three yellow leaves pinned with a thorn onto the .. More
2014, Working on Windmill Beach, in Simonstown, Western Cape, South Africa Finely detailed pieces of seaweed, placed together onto the sand.Windmill Beach, Simon's Town, South AfricaJanet Botes2014  Seaweed cut and placed onto sand while wet, left to dryWindmill Beach, Simon's Town, South AfricaJanet Botes2014    Circle cut from seaweed and a pebble found on the beachWindmill Beach, Simon's Town, South AfricaJanet Botes2014 More
2014, Working on Windmill beach, Simonstown, Western Cape, South Africa More
2014, Working on the beach, in Gordon's Bay, Western Cape South Africa Working with small stones on Gordon's Bay beach, Western Cape, South Africa Arranging small rocks and pebbles in lines, creating patterns and lines by drawing with soft stone onto harder small rocks.Sunday, 16 November 2014 Pattern on the rocks created by using a softer stone as 'crayon' Rock slivers found onsite Lines drawn onto small rocks by using soft ochre stones found onsite Two tones on t.. More
2014, Working in Arderne Gardens, Claremont, Cape Town, South Africa Once a month, a group of artists gather in different spaces in the area around Cape Town in South Africa. The August gathering for 2014 was held in Arderne Gardens in Claremont - established in 1845 by Ralph Henry Arderne, a successful timber merchant originally from Cheshire, England, who acquired the land in Claremont where he built his home, known as The Hill. He collected plants from all ove.. More
2014, June - Tokai Plantation, South Africa Sticks and foam from the river, on a tree stump - Tokai Plantation, Tokai, Cape Town, South Africa    Pieces of tree bark found on the ground were placed in crevices on an old tree stump covered with moss - Tokai Plantation, Tokai, Cape Town, South Africa These two works were created during an informal land art gathering by artists in the Western Cape (South Africa). Associated with Site_Specifi.. More
2014, summer in South Africa: Gordon's Bay Janet BotesWorking with Kelp, Wrack and Sea Lettuce washed ashore on Gordon's Bay beach, Western Cape, South AfricaFebruary 2014 More
2013, Spring in South Africa: Newslands Forest More
2013, Spring in South Africa: Sunset Beach Sunset Beach, West Coast, South Africa, during a morning in October 2013, in the company of artist Janet Ranson and photographer Diaan Mynhardt.     When I sent out my newsletter with photos of these works, a few days after the land art was created, one of the people who received my newsletter told me that she walked on the beach with her sister after we left, and they were wondering who had tak.. More
2013, August. Site_Specific Land Art Biennale, Plettenberg Bay, South Africa "Flow", Mud painting on rock, Robberg Beach, Plettenberg BayInspired by the splatter patterns that naturally occur where the sea water flows over the sand with the incoming tide "Flow as a line", mud dripped onto sand and inserted as 'inlay' into wet sand, Robberg beach, Plettenberg Bay, South Africa  Small totems created from washed-up twigs and grasses in the Lagoon on Plettenberg Bay Beach More