Description
About the Artist:
Daniel Novela enrolled for Fine Arts Studies at the Klerksdorp Campus of the Vaal Triangle Technicon, where he eventually obtained his National Diploma in the year 2000, receiving accolades as one of the top students.
Daniel has evolved a style of painting that is remarkably sophisticated; although he maintains his ancestral roots with the land, Africa, he interprets this in a style that is neither purely realistic nor overly abstract. He uses his very sensitive feeling for colour to imbue the works with a sense of time and a place that is quite ephemeral.
Always in contact with the human scale, it is nature that eventually dominates his works, and his singular use of bold brush strokes combined with an innate sense of composition that shows an artistic sensibility born of pure intuition. His paintings become a real sensual experience in which the eyes are used to touch and relay emotions in much the way that Kandinsky would have appreciated.
He has a tenacity and integrity that have led him to his exhibitions in New York. His works are well worth the investment, and his artistic style, particularly the sensitivity of his brush strokes and his feeling for atmosphere, is commendable.
This can be said of Daniel Novela, that he is a child of Africa, rendering pictures of Africa. But he is also an artist of the world with an understanding of the need to produce qualitative works with an inherent artistic value that can even now be translated into investment value.
