'Dít het die Here gegee'

Scats Esterhuyse het vir hom ’n nuwe lewenspad oopgeverf toe hy die Skepping op doek begin vasvang het.

deur RIËTTE VAN DER WAT foto’s MARSEL ROOTHMAN

"Dis nie my doelwit om ’n geestelike ervaring te hê as ek skilder nie, maar ek is ’n Christen en dít wat ek voel, sal op die doek uitkom" Op die kerktoring blink sonstrale deur die laatmiddagwolke wat inrol bo die ou sendingdorpie Philipstown, en in Houtbaai kolk reënwolke belowend bo die see. Dié olieverf-tonele speel af in die skilderye van die landskapkunstenaar Scats Esterhuyse waar dit teen die mure van sy en sy vrou, Sharon, se sitkamer in Johannesburg hang – ver van die ooptes wat hom so aangryp. “Dit lyk nie gewoonlik só netjies hier nie,” glimlag Scats, wat in sy denimbroek en tekkies veel jonger as sy 61 jaar lyk. “Die lewe is ook nie perfek nie, weet jy. Ek ook nie – wat jy sien is…

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