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Art4heart’s new venture


Art4heart closed its doors in July 2022 after 11 years of operating in Kempton Park. For me it was the saying goodbye that was the hardest. I will always treasure the memories made with good friends there and luckily we are connected via WhatsApp and technology.

In August 2022, we arrived in Gansbaai, Western Cape. What a difference!!! Every things was and is different! For starters, the town has no traffic lights! About half of the businesses close for lunch, or they close for the day at 15h00, except for the convenient stores like Spar and OK. Clicks closes their doors during loadshedding????, and during this time, all other stores run their very loud generators just outside their doors. You just walk pass the noise and go about your business. Most businesses are closed on Sundays, except for restaurants.
Gansbaai has so many restaurants and coffee shops, it is unbelievable!
I do miss Checkers and Pick and Pay. I also miss Mr D, strangely enough!

The service delivery is top notch. If somethings breaks, it is fixed the same day or the next. There are no potholes in Gansbaai. It is kept clean and beautiful. In August we had an issue with water. Nothing in the taps. I phone the municipality immediately. Straight away the lady knew about the issue and said they were dealing with it. Half and hour later, we had water on tap again! I liked that! Nearly fainted at the speed things are fixed here. You will hear no complains from me. At night time, you can see the galaxy. The starts are bright on no-cloud nights, and the moon even seems brighter and bigger.

I wanted to start the Art Studio again in January 2023, but life happened. I hear you ask why? Let me tell you why! It was a rollercoaster ride from August to January! Believe you me!!! I actually started AND opened last week! 😛

I also launched my Competition last week. B U T I printed my competition entry form in hastiness and after it was printed discovered 3 spelling mistakes! \()/ The horror!
I already have 2 people that joined the Art4heart art gallery, with lots more to join. This is going to be a local is lekker thing.

My shop is off to a bit of a slow start as I am waiting for stock and shelves, but this too will pass! Rome was not built in one day – and it takes time to build an ark. Not that Art4heart is Rome or an ark, but you get the picture.

The art classes starts in February and I am looking forward to that!
Now I must just get to settle in more and more and more and more
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New year, new things!!

This year started with an exclamation mark! Wow!!! and we are nearly at the end of the first month of the year!!! Time waits for nobody!!!

We started with the elements of Art – Lines in particular with the Elementary school and with the Adults and High Schoolers we started with upside down drawing.

Some students are still working on their project of last year, but is nearly finished.

We are blessed with students with immense talent! I stand in awe every day and am so thankful for them using their talent as it needs to be used.

Welcome to al the new students, May your time with Art4Heart be blessed and productive!!!

Online shop is busy being set up Watch this space!!!!
We will have:

Art Online Lessons

  • Basic (Student)
  • Moderate (semi professional)
  • Professional
  • Children 4- 6 Packet
  • Children 7- 12 Packet

Art Sets Materials

  • Basic Packet
  • Normal Packet
  • Premium Packet

Art Therapy Sets

  • Depression Packet
  • Anxiety Packet
  • Self-esteem Packet
  • And Lots more….
  • etc etc etc etc

Subscription Sets

Art Subscription Box – monthly

  • Art materials needed to do an art project
  • Art project with step by step instructions
  • PDF on materials and usages

Art subscription premium – monthly

  • Critique of 1 art project
  • PDF filled with tips and techniques on Art
  • PDF discussing/reviewing Art Materials
  • PDF with Art of Art Masters
  • 1 high resolution reference photo for free

Christian subscription box – monthly

  • Devotion Card
  • 2 playing cards with Spiritual verse and picture from 52 cards
  • Colouring Card
  • Art Materials to colour and shade
  • Gift 1
  • Gift 2
  • Sweet

etc, etc , etc

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Newsletter

Hi everybody.

These are really difficult times for everybody and I really hope that you re all well.

The last two weeks have been difficult for our country and our community, but I am excited by how positive most people are in spite of these difficulties.

It also gives us an opportunity to spend more time sharpening our skills, and we have been working on a plan to help you during the lockdown as well. Behind the scenes we have been working on developing a solution that will allow all of you to attend classes and continue building on your excellent progress so far this year. 

There is really no reason why we cannot continue with classes considering the wonderful technology that is available to us. Last week we did two short classes to test using Zoom to do a class, and we have decided to start with formal virtual classes on Tuesday the 7th of April 2020. My husband, Gideon has assisted in refining the setup for doing that, and will also help me on the day if there are any technical issues.

Due to the fact that we will not all be in the same room. We have to adapt our normal method to accommodate the limitations of our usual classes for the duration of the lockdown. 

In stead of two hour classes once a week, we will now be running two 1 hour 30 minute classes a week. That gives us an opportunity to settle in and get used to the format. I addition, you can send me your work done during class so that  I can review it review it. That means that you will get an additional 60 minutes per week, and then hen also the free post class critique of the work done in the class.

We can also do larger classes like this, and as we assume that with the lockdown therefore I have decided to do the sessions as follows:

  1. Tuesday from 10H00 to 11:30        –   Adults
  2. Tuesday from 13H00 to 14H30      –   Elementary Students (Grade 1 to 7)
  3. Wednesday from 10H00 to 11:30   –  High School Students ( Grade 8 to 12)
  4. Wednesday from 13H00 to 14:30  –  Elementary Students
  5. Thursday from 10H00 to 11:30       – Adult
  6. Thursday from 13:00 to 14:30.       – High School Students

If this is clashing with adults working remotely,  please contact me so that we can also look at a schedule outside normal working hours. I assume that the day classes won the Children will be in order.

Please note again that this arrangement is only in place during the lockdown. Afterwards we will revert to normal class lengths on normal schedules.

Please feel free to contact me on my WhatsApp or via email regarding this.

You will notice that we are also busy working on our website. We are planning exciting things for it, so please be patient with us for a bit while we get it in order.

You can watch our progress and read my blog at https://www.art4heart.co.za.

Say safe and blessed!