DANIEL DU PLESSIS

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DANIEL DU PLESSIS

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Gallery 1: Love Stories

Finely detailed acrylic painting on transparent acrylic box. Materials impart luminous quality

Something that sounded like goodbye, 2003-10

acrylic and mixed media on acrylic box

20 x 16 x 1 ½inches 

Private collection

Butterfly in bubble. Backdrop Savannah river and bridge

Down, by the riverside, 2019

Acrylic on panel 

20 x 20 inches  

Painting. Dangerous-looking rose. Love symbols subverted. Threatening atmosphere

Wish I were in love again, 2002

acrylic and mixed media on canvas

54 x 58 ¼ x 2 ¼ inches 

Private collection

Painting. Blue morning-glory flowers. Huge blue moth. Hummingbirds. Fine painted detail. Colorful

Everybody knows, 2005

acrylic and oil on acrylic box

32 x 26 x 2 inches 

Acrylic painting. Thick layers of transparent resin. Disorienting perspective. References to romance

Fall-out, 2006

acrylic, mixed media and resin on panel

48 x 40 x 1 inches 


Acrylic painting. Symbols of Venus, the sea, pearls, fish. Luminous with inticate detail

You’d never know, 2004  

Acrylic on plexi

12 x 8 inches

Private collection

Small, symbolic painting with romantic imagery. "Amor", love, hearts covering surface

There ain’t no cure, 2005

acrylic and mixed media on acrylic box

11 x 14 x 1 ½inches 

Mixed media painting. Orchid againsts tropical background. White doves in nest. Detail.
Cupid.

Say it's not so, 2001

Acrylic and mixed media on panel

24 x 24 inches

Private collection

Oil painting of orchid and frogs against misty tropical background. Inspiration Martin Johnson-Heade

Summertime, 2005

oil on canvas

10 x 16 inches 

Fullerton College Art Collection


Painting of burning rose against red sky. Subtle rose images in background. Bubbles – fleeting time

All those burning hearts, 2009

oil on panel

14 x 11 x 2 inches

Private collection

Large painting "Sunset at Cythera", the mythical island of love. Flowers and romantic symbols

Sunset at Cythera, 2010

oil on linen

60 x 96 inches 

Detail of oil painting. Deer growing green antlers. Pearls, roses, morning glories

Sunset at Cythera (detail)

Romantic imagery against fiery sky. Hearts made of thorns. Roses, morning glories

From this darkness on, 2009

oil on canvas

48 x 24 x 1 ½ inches 

Detail of painting. Rose, hummingbird, morning glories, pearls, dying leaves

From this darkness on (detail).

Acrylic painting. Titled after Billy Holiday song "Don't Explain". Rose, thorns, butterflies, rings

Don't explain, 2005

acrylic and mixed media on panel

60 x 48 x 1 ½ inches 


Mixed media painting. Victorian influence. Romance, love against icy landscape

The lovely loving , 2002

crylic and mixed media on plexi

12 x 8 inches 

Private collection

Acrylic painting. Exotic hummingbird approaching poisonous flower. Luminous blues and greens

And the hateful hate, 2002 

Acrylic and mixed media on plexi

10 x 8 inches 

Private collection

Oil painting of yellow rose, covered in icicles. Reference: Joni Mitchell "Fifty/fifty Fire and Ice

  

50/50 fire and ice, 2009

oil on canvas

56 x 18 x 1 ½ inches 

Dreamlike painting of snowy landscape. Trees laden with snow. Intertwined hearts. Skeletal rose

Summer’s ghosts, 2001 

acrylic and mixed media on plexi

10 x 8 inches

Private collection.



Atmospheric oil painting with birds, flowers, fruit. Suggesting senses like sight, sounds and taste

Every time you go away, 2006

oil on canvas

20 x 16 inches

Private collection

Detail of oil painting. Birds, berries, toadstools. Fine details

Every time you go away (detail).

Oil painting contrasting turmoil and peace. Angels trumpets, birds, goldfish

When it’s gone, 2006

oil on canvas

48 x 38 x 1 ½ inches 

Oil painting. Goldfish out of context. Very detailed artistic rendering

When it's gone (detail).

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