Welcome to Artworks by Hermine Spies Coleman
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Welcome to Art-by-Hermine where we showcase Artworks by Hermine Spies Coleman. We are located in Howick in the marvellous Natal Midlands. Howick is a medium sized town in KwaZulu-Natal Province in South Africa.
Hermine is a well known South Artist with works in several galleries and in private collections. She works in many media including oils, water colour and charcoal among others. She also works in clay producing figurines and vessels.
Hermine has lived and worked in the district for many years. For sixteen years Hermine owned and operated the famed Giverny Country Studios at Currys Post – about 12 km outside of Howick. Giverny Country Studios was a mecca for art and pottery workshops and classes. And it was where Hermine created her fabulous pieces many of which are displayed in the coming pages.
Time moves on and Hermine has decided to focus primarily on her own art. She loved teaching and still does teach to a limited degree. However, her primary focus right now is to create the marvellous artworks that she does so well.
Hermine holds a Fine Arts degree from the University of Pretoria as well as an Honours degree in History of Art from The University of South Africa. Thereafter, she spent three years training at the Art Academy in Ghent, Belgium and gained the most invaluable practical experience new and upcoming artists sorely need.
Although her educational experiences have assisted her in becoming the amazing teacher she is today, Hermine believes her most important learning experience comes from practicing her art, working with other artists, and from teaching her many students through the years. She has been a practising artist since the late seventies and many of her works are found in galleries and private collections in South Africa and abroad.
She looks forward to really focussing on creating art in her own special style.
Welcome to Art-by-Hermine. We take great pleasure in offering for sale artworks by Hermine Spies Coleman
Read Hermine’s Artist Statement
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
My creative efforts are seldom planned and usually start without any idea what I am going to do. On completion, I cannot recall what I have done. I often look at my creations with the question, “Did I really paint that?” I cannot remember the creative process of most of my work. I don’t think I use my conscious brain when I create, rather my unconscious intuition.
ART TRAINING
University of Pretoria (B.F. A) and Unisa (Honours History of Art)
Academies of Ghent and Brussels, Belgium
ARTWORK EXPERIENCE
In Gauteng Province
I was an art critic for Die Beeld newspaper until I became a full-time artist. My art works sold all over South Africa and are to be found in several public galleries. I training with Joyce Leonard who focussed on the development of drawings. Later, I taught art at several schools (Woodmead High School and Auckland Park Preparatory School) and privately in Johannesburg. I was an assistant at the Roodepoort Museum. During that time, I won the UTA Travelling Scholarship for artists.
The Midlands in KwaZulu-Natal Province
In 2000, I relocated to the Natal Midlands and started an Art centre: Giverny
Country Studios. and participated in the following initiatives and exhibitions
* I initiated and organised the Midlands Meander Creative Art Festival.
* 2009 Artspace Durban: 3-woman exhibition “Under my skin”
* 2018 Tatham Art Gallery – solo exhibition “The Power of Loss and Gain”
* I recently down scaled and now live in Howick.
* 2025 Part of Crossways exhibition with 3 other artists the Old
Mushroom Farm Art Gallery.
Website: art-by-hermine.com
Insta: herminespiescoleman-art
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