by Tracy Algar | Apr 29, 2025 | News
For years, the Karoo lived in my imagination, sparked by Eve Palmer’s “The Plains of Camdeboo.” That book painted a vivid picture of wide open spaces and a quiet, powerful strength that made me long to visit. That pull became a reality last year when my partner...
by Tracy Algar | Apr 10, 2025 | News
Learn landscape painting in the beautiful Karoo. I offer private oil painting lessons for individuals or groups in Adendorp and Graaff-Reinet. What I teach: Traditional representational landscape and still life oil painting. What you’ll learn in my lessons: The...
by Tracy Algar | Apr 10, 2025 | News
Free online oil painting classes I have launched a series of oil painting classes online where you can learn the basics of traditional representational landscape painting, with a contemporary twist. Find out more here.
by Tracy Algar | Oct 24, 2024 | News
by Tracy Algar | Oct 17, 2024 | News
Hello there from a sunny and warm Graaff Reinet. It couldn’t be more different here today than the day we packed up and the morning we left from Stanford. We packed a 4-metre long trailer with pretty much everything we own while it hailed and rained on the Sunday. The...
by Tracy Algar | May 16, 2023 | News
How I find inspiration, and on working en plein air. I live in a BIG dramatic landscape that includes the Kleinrivier (Little River), Kleinriviersberg (Little River Mountain) and Akkedisberg (Lizard Mountain), abundant Fynbos flora, the leafy historic village of...