It’s a testament to the artistic skill of painter Heike Allerton-Davies that she portrays both strength and vulnerability in the female nudes she features. “The female form often seems quite fragile but at the same time shameless and brave. I use this beauty in a way that shows women as powerful but also vulnerable.” Heike [...]
When does beadwork go from craft to art? The answer is when it comes out of the workshop of Beloved Beadwork! Not only is their wearable beadwork art but it’s science too as designs are often based on nature’s own mathematics and geometry (the Golden Ratio), and the number of beads and time it takes [...]
Truly unique art is always recognisable and Philippa Green’s jewellery, supplied to Cape Grace through Imagenius, fits this prerequisite. Looking at a beautiful perspex cuff, overlaid with strips of silver, you just know this is a Philippa Green. It could also be studded with beads, stitched with flower or animal designs, engraved or adorned with [...]
A good hotel concierge will have their ear to the ground and know exactly what’s hot and happening in their town and those secret little places that even the locals aren’t aware of. We asked Cape Grace Concierge, Marilise Lombard to share five of Cape Town’s more creative places with us and she didn’t disappoint: [...]