100 Doors of Hope - Ann Gadd
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To celebrate 100 years of caring for abused, abandoned and neglected children, Jo'burg Child Welfare has tasked 100 South Africans to take a basic interior door and turn it into a piece of art.The door represents the entrance to the home and new opportunities for our country's most vulnerable citizens. Ann Gadd is a Cape-Town based artist. Extremely popular contemporary South African artist, Ann Gadd’s work hangs in galleries both locally and in New Zealand and the UK as well as in collections worldwide. Such is the popularity of her “Sheep” series of works, that she is arguably South Africa’s best selling female artist.
Why I paint sheep: I had been painting seriously since 1997 - mostly landscapes, still lives etc in bright expressionistic colours. I painted my first sheep in 2002. It was called “The sheep who studied astrology.” I enjoyed doing it and it sold, so later that year I painted a couple of versions of Ambitious sheep. They sold, however I never really gave them too much thought, until 2006 when I had hit the creative doldrums. Nothing seemed to work anymore and I felt like stopping painting altogether. I seemed stuck creatively and did not know where to head. With two children to support and the usual bonds etc, the financial pressure was uncomfortable. It was a freezing day, rain pouring down, and I was in the garage, which I used as a studio then. I kept hearing this inner voice saying paint sheep, paint sheep, and I’m like “yeah right people are going to want paintings of sheep!” Anyhow decided what the hell and so painted my first two sheep. I took them to a well known art gallery/dealer who loved them. I did seven more and took them to another gallery who snapped them up. Four days later they called and said they had sold those and asked for more. Over 2,000 sheep later, the rest as they say is history!