List of Illustrations

Fig. 1 Gabrielle de Saint Clair, Burning Vestiges, (2024), Unisa Art Gallery, Pretoria.

 

Fig. 2 Elephant Hide, Sunset, Ingwelala Game Reserve, Limpopo.

 

Fig. 3 Shepherd Tree, Boscia albitrunca, Madikwe Game Reserve, North West Province,

May 2024.

 

Fig. 4 Shepherd tree ‘Relic’.

 

Fig. 5 Campfire, Ingwelala Game Reserve, Limpopo.

 

Fig. 6 Collecting wood pieces, Madikwe Game Reserve, North West Province.

 

Fig. 7 Working on assignments, Ingwelala Game Reserve, Limpopo.

 

Fig. 8 Burning the wood panels.

 

Fig 9 Encaustic painting on wood panels.

 

Fig. 10 Encaustic painting on wood panels.

 

Fig. 11 Encaustic painting, incising the wax, oil paint.

 

Fig. 12 Workbook

 

Fig. 13 Workbook

 

Fig. 14 Workbook

 

Fig. 15 Campfire, Ingwelala Game Reserve, Limpopo.

 

Fig. 16 Encaustic painting on split wood pieces.

 

Fig. 17 Encaustic painting detail.

 

Fig. 18 Jacqueline Bishop, Thou Art My Rose, 2013, watercolour on collage.

 

Fig. 19 Gwenneth Miller, Healing Heart, (1996), oil and encaustic on wood, (62 x 81cm).

 

Fig. 20 Olivier de Shagazan, Transfiguration, (1998), performance.

 

Fig. 21 A Fayum portrait, Photo courtesy of Musee du Louvre.

 

Fig. 22 Gabrielle de Saint Clair, Burning Vestiges, (2024), performance. Unisa Art Gallery

 

Fig. 23 Gabrielle de Saint Clair, Burning Vestiges, (2024), performance. Unisa Art Gallery

 

Fig. 24 Gabrielle de Saint Clair, Burning Vestiges, (2024), performance. Unisa Art Gallery

 

Fig. 25 Gabrielle de Saint Clair, Burning Vestiges, (2024), performance. Unisa Art Gallery

 

Fig. 26 Gabrielle de Saint Clair, Burning Vestiges, (2024), performance. Unisa Art Gallery

 

Fig. 27 Gabrielle de Saint Clair, Burning Vestiges, (2024) performance video, Unisa Art Gallery, Pretoria.

 

Fig. 28 Gabrielle de Saint Clair, Burning Vestiges, (2024), encaustic on wood panels,

installation, Unisa Art Gallery, Pretoria.

 

Fig. 29 Gabrielle de Saint Clair, Burning Vestiges, (2024), encaustic on wood panels, installation, Unisa Art Gallery, Pretoria.

 

Fig. 30 Gabrielle de Saint Clair, Burning Vestiges, (2024), encaustic on wood panel, detail, Unisa Art Gallery, Pretoria.

 

Fig. 31 Gabrielle de Saint Clair, Burning Vestiges, (2024), encaustic on wood panel, detail, Unisa Art Gallery, Pretoria.