Gabrielle Raaff is a painter who lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa.

As we near the end of the first month of a new year I shake my head at how old my overview page was. I do apologize to those of you who visit my site frequently.

My partner, Justin Fiske (http://www.justinfiske.com/) is preparing for a big show in Basel, Switzerland which makes me chief Wren watcher and therefore studio time has been fairly limited.

I am excited about a new year that has nothing planned as yet except for the bold intention of making really, truly new work. I am always loading new, available works so keep browsing my site if you are looking for something.

Bicycle Portraits, a new book by Stan Engelbrecht and Nic Grobler which features almost 200 google map paintings of mine, will be launched in March.

My daughter keeps me enthralled, enlightened and happy every day, paintings keeps me busy at night!

For further information on what inspires my work please visit the section titled 'Inspiration'.

Enjoy!