Marlize Grové is an artist from Pretoria, where she currently lives and works. She lived in the UK for 10 years and attended social art sessions at the College of West Anglia. She believes that art is source of beauty, joy and delight.

Inspired by nature and people her work often explores themes of flowers, still life compositions and portraiture’s. Her favourite medium is soft pastels but she has also done paintings in oil. She is drawn by colour and texture and in addition to drawing she also loves mosaic, stained glass and scrapbooking.

She admires the bright whimsical paintings by Angela Morgan.

“I found that I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way”- Georgia O’Keeffe