This pomegranate was a commission and quite a challenge at that! My friend Heleen de Haas wanted something to go with the painting of plums which she had chosen and said that because she grows pomegranates on her farm, this would be ideal. And it is now hanging in Prince Albert in Die Klein Karoo in South Africa. A well travelled pomegranate! Heleen and I became friends in 1984, when I had just begun calligraphy and I had lived in Cape Town for 6 months. We travelled to Johannesburg together to … [Read more...]