ArtMode to hold Eat, Paint, Love Festival

One of Artmode's most successful innovations is that it allows visitors to meet and watch some of the artists at work.

This year painter Hugo Maritz is participating. Maritz was born in Windhoek in 1975. After matriculating at Linden High School, Joburg in 1993, he obtained a BA (Philosophy and Psychology) degree at the Rand Afrikaans University. Although he never studied art, he started drawing at a very young age. In 1993 well-known arts critic and lecturer Nico van Rensburg took him under his wing and taught him more about composition and painting.

As a child, Maritz spent a most of his time drawing comic strip characters, which is where he developed his sense of proportion. As his ability grew, his style developed towards realism, which laid an important foundation for his future work. He has since moved towards a more abstract and cubist style in his paintings.

Maritz has done 11 solo exhibitions and he exhibited his work for the first time at the age of 15. He has an enthusiastic following in South Africa and abroad, with works in private and corporate collections worldwide.

His paintings consist of a many-layered approach that start with acrylics and end with oils. He begins with sharp contrasts in black and white, and then refines the composition to different scales of colour from dark to light, revealing the final work by modulating the strength of contrasts to create a dance of focal points that gives aesthetic pleasure to the eye.

Maritz is one of 30 gifted artists who are participating in Eat, Paint Love covering disciplines from painting and graffiti to charcoal drawing and mosaics.

Graffiti:

• Wayne Bks
• Mr Migo

Sculptures:

• Janko de Beer
• Gabrielle Alberts

Charcoal drawing:

* Callum Pickard

Illustration:

• Marlize Eckard
• Wayne Bks
• Catherine Holtzhausen
• Lauren Brits

Food Trucks:

• Food we Love
• Racocoa
• Full Kicks Food Corn Dogs
• Toats Chef Shack
• Baguette Bicycle
• Meisies Kitchen
• Como
• The Lunch Box
• Pizza Piaggio
• Mon Ami- French Afrik Bistro
• KnexT Level Sushi
• Caffe Pronto
• Senor Onion Mexican Deli

Performance:

• Sangisa Collective
• Viccy Wanliss
• Eurythmy by Sandise Richie Ngxumsa
• Eurythmy by Simone Jane Bedien
• Deevya

Mosaic:

* Marcelino Manhula

Painting:

• Isabella Chydenius
• Dathini Mzayiya
• Hugo Maritz
• Frans Smit
• Alvira Ferreira
• Alouette Ferreira
• Riaan van Zyl
• Andy Neuro
• Adele van Heerden
• Holmes Jansen
• Zach Mukwira
• Ezan Vercueil
• Cheriann Silverwolf
• Robyn Pretorius

Musicians:

• Vanessa Holliday
• Los Tacos
• Holliday + Flinch ft Toni
• Dani Bitton and Jason Ward on percussion
• Sadhu Sensi

For more information, contact az.oc.stpecnoceuqinuoy@ofni