This book provides an overview of his visual work over the last five decades. In it, he presents a survey of his development as an artist from his school years up to the present. He aims to bring together as many of his interests, influences, and passions as possible, while also allowing the book to serve as inspiration for aspiring artists. He also discusses his motivations, background, processes, and inspirations. It is an autobiography which is unusual for an artist’s book, but ideal, as the artist gets the opportunity to write about his own vision and his own objectives.

He was trained as a jeweller/goldsmith, but his primary focus is sculpture and drawing. The main body of the book consists of a curated selection of artworks that demonstrate the three mediums in which he works, spanning approximately 50 years. The book is around 235 pages long.

The foreword is written by the land artist Strijdom van der Merwe and includes an essay by South African graphic designer Garth Walker. There is also an interview with the novelist and visual artist Ingrid Winterbach.

The book is deeply personal to him. On the one hand, it functions as a kind of artist’s autobiography, but it is also a stocktaking—a documentation of his development as an artist.

A recurring motif throughout the years has been his interest in the blending of high art (the Western art tradition) and pop culture (comic artists and rock iconography). Since his school days, he has had a passion for comics and rock music. After completing his BA in Fine Art, specialising in jewellery design, he went on to earn a master’s degree in sculpture. He then began teaching at an independent art institute in Pretoria, where, over the past seventeen years, he has lectured in subjects including research methodology, art history, design, illustration, and drawing.

His motivation for publishing the book, rather than keeping it private, lies in its role as a work of communication. Like any artwork—and he regards it as such—it is an attempt to engage in dialogue with the world. Additionally, it has the potential to inspire others, particularly younger, emerging artists, by demonstrating that it is possible to work across multiple mediums and move through different artistic phases. It also illustrates that it can take considerable time for an artist to find their direction.