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Christiaan du Plooy

Christiaan du Plooy's page in Mercury
  • digital art

I live in unison with my art. It's a direct relationship from my life, experiences and emotions to a page where it comes to life for others to witness. In my earlier work I typically didn't feature myself in it, but as l've grown I've realised the importance of having myself in my work, so l've started implementing it as seen in my later collections. As someone who started out as a traditional artist working with oil paint my style has been heavily inspired by historical eras like the renascence as well as artists like Pablo Picasso, Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. …

based in
Cape Town, South Africa

In Renowned magazine

Christiaan du Plooy's page in Mercury
Mercury · “Love Me to Death” · p. 54

The first of our four-part series on the inner planets. Art meets science and astrology through four elements found on Mercury: helium, aluminum, sulfur and iron.

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