2026 Map: Open Studios Fish Hoek & Clovelly
OPEN STUDIOS
FISH HOEK & CLOVELLY
FISH HOEK & CLOVELLY
9 – 11 October ‘26
Collector’s Preview Fri 9 Oct · Weekend Free Entry · openstudios.org.za
Proceeds from the preview event will support Project Flamingo.
Open Studios Fish Hoek & Clovelly 2026 is proudly supported by Property Peninsula, Peak Café, AP Jones, Zip Print, The Write Shoppe, Novus, and Lubanzi Wines.
Clovelly Route
Fish Hoek Valley Route
Fish Hoek Mountain Route
Partner Venues
Clovelly Route
1. Sasha Scholtz + Marlise Keith - 64 Clovelly Rd, Clovelly
Sasha runs art classes from her home studio, Creative Space Clovelly, drawing on a rich experience teaching art in Eswatini, Franschhoek, Makhanda and Cape Town. Her own creative practice spans mixed media, collage and ink.
Marlise is known for mixed-media collages, large-scale drawings, and small sculptures of fabric and found objects that process difficult subject matter through raw, textured mark-making.
Sasha runs art classes from her home studio, Creative Space Clovelly, drawing on a rich experience teaching art in Eswatini, Franschhoek, Makhanda and Cape Town. Her own creative practice spans mixed media, collage and ink.Marlise is known for mixed-media collages, large-scale drawings, and small sculptures of fabric and found objects that process difficult subject matter through raw, textured mark-making.2. Kyoko Kimura Morgan - 93 Clovelly Rd, Clovelly
Kyoko is a Japanese paper artist, origami teacher and founder of Origami for Africa. Her work fuses Japanese traditions (ceramics, boro mending and sumi-e ink painting) with Cape Town's creative spirit.
Kyoko is a Japanese paper artist, origami teacher and founder of Origami for Africa. Her work fuses Japanese traditions (ceramics, boro mending and sumi-e ink painting) with Cape Town's creative spirit.3. Evan Oberholster + Leora Lewis - 90 Clovelly Rd, Clovelly
Since relocating to Clovelly in 2019, Evan has expanded from oil painting into ceramic mask sculpture, presenting a dialogue between painted bodies and sculpted faces.
A ceramic artist whose work moves between the functional and the fantastical, from carefully controlled tableware to intuitive hand-built pieces inspired by animals, birds and organic forms.
Since relocating to Clovelly in 2019, Evan has expanded from oil painting into ceramic mask sculpture, presenting a dialogue between painted bodies and sculpted faces.4. Angela Buckland - 4 Clovelly Road, Clovelly
A photographer specialising in architectural, editorial and NGO-sector work, Angela has spent 25 years as a freelancer and has three published books. Showing portraits of Abakwetha from the Eastern Cape alongside local landscapes.
5. Kay Price Lindsay - 37 Clovelly Road, Clovelly
Self-taught landscape artist working in a monochromatic palette of charcoal, raw umber oils and chalk pastels, capturing off-trail wilderness across Southern Africa.
Self-taught landscape artist working in a monochromatic palette of charcoal, raw umber oils and chalk pastels, capturing off-trail wilderness across Southern Africa.6. Sue Jowell - 33 Montrose Avenue, Clovelly
Sue creates riveted-metal mirror frames and wall panels inspired by Tuareg furniture and masks; a joyful, often humorous celebration of flora, fauna and everyday South African life.
Fish Hoek Valley Route
7. Jenny Gordon + Carol Hofmeyr - 5 Luttrell Crescent, Fish Hoek
Jenny is a photographer and visual artist with over four decades exploring social landscapes and environmental portraiture across South African communities.
Founder of the Keiskamma Art Project, Carol works in ceramics, painting, embroidery and mixed media exploring fragility, restoration and hope.
Jenny is a photographer and visual artist with over four decades exploring social landscapes and environmental portraiture across South African communities.Founder of the Keiskamma Art Project, Carol works in ceramics, painting, embroidery and mixed media exploring fragility, restoration and hope.8. Sue Kaplan - 19 Nerina Ave, Fish Hoek
Sue is an intuitive, visceral painter with an MA in Fine Art and Curating, and an emphasis on art therapy and art education, spanning Johannesburg and Cape Town.
9. Cathy Stanley + Elizabeth Vels - 48 Second Crescent, Fish Hoek
A breast cancer survivor, Cathy creates vivid paper paintings that explore the fragile connections between the human body and the natural environment.
A career spanning nearly six decades, Elizabeth is one of South Africa's early papermakers and artists' book makers. She has also worked across paint, stitching, weaving, ceramics and etching.
A career spanning nearly six decades, Elizabeth is one of South Africa's early papermakers and artists' book makers. She has also worked across paint, stitching, weaving, ceramics and etching.10. Laura Cooke - 72 Nerina Crescent, Fish Hoek
Cape Town-based landscape painter working in acrylic, watercolour, mixed media and linocut, with a background in photojournalism. Her layered, intuitive style captures the feeling of South African wilderness rather than a literal record of it.
Cape Town-based landscape painter working in acrylic, watercolour, mixed media and linocut, with a background in photojournalism. Her layered, intuitive style captures the feeling of South African wilderness rather than a literal record of it.11. Chris Bladen - 6 First Avenue, Fish Hoek
Bronze sculptor known for finely detailed fish and birds, drawing on years of fly fishing and birdwatching to capture movement and character.
12. Gerda Smit - 5 Tenth Avenue, Fish Hoek
Working as O.Griet, Gerda combines painting and ceramics with a playful, naïve visual language — visual diary work, experimental drawing and hand-built ceramic characters.
Working as O.Griet, Gerda combines painting and ceramics with a playful, naïve visual language — visual diary work, experimental drawing and hand-built ceramic characters.13. Mashilo Magongoa - 13 Kenwood Street, Fish Hoek
Mashilo is a sculptor working in mixed media and trained at the Michaelis School of Fine Art. He combines formal artistic training with craftsmanship to produce distinctive, handcrafted works, drawing on the visual culture of township life in his native Limpopo.
14. Mothership Studios - 16 Dunster Avenue, Fish Hoek
An artist-led professional studio and makers' space, founded to offer artists an accessible, child-friendly, community-driven place to work, collaborate and grow. More than a studio, Mothership Studios is a living, evolving creative ecosystem.
Mandy Johnston — Mandy Johnston is a multidisciplinary artist working with alternative materials, printmaking and experiential sculpture. With an MFA from Wits, she has recently shown at CIRCA Cape Town and AfrikaBurn.
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James Grimstead — James Grimstead is a watercolour and mixed-media artist whose daily sketching practice documents everyday moments and local places.
Lauren Shantall — Lauren Shantall works full-time in communications and paints whenever she can. She has been exhibiting since 2022 and her work explores an ongoing fascination with plants and flowers.
Jasper Wolfeman — Jasper Wolfeman is an oil and acrylic painter and floral designer, exploring queer softness, strength and intimacy through gentle mark-making.
Anthea Czech — Anthea Czech is a painter exploring landscape, portraiture and abstraction, drawing on a background in computer science and psychology.
Heidi Benn — Heidi Benn is a mixed-media artist working with paper, natural yarn, hand stitching and ink, exploring touch and the histories carried through hands.
Janine Venter — Janine Venter is a figurative oil painter whose deeply personal portraits explore intimacy and vulnerability through colour and composition.
Mandy Lake — Mandy Lake is an oil painter capturing the translucent, shifting character of the ocean through abstracted water surfaces.
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Nicolene Louw — Nicolene Louw is an illustrator working in pen, ink and mixed media. Her career has spanned editorial illustration, publishing and graphic recording.
Dudri Du Preez — Dudri Du Preez is an artist and nature guide working between realism and abstraction, from detailed lichen studies to abstract acrylic pieces.
Gabriela Gonsalves — Gabriela Gonsalves is a mixed media artist working in watercolour, ink and oils; layered colour and mark-making explore transition and change.
Candice Oppenheim — Candice Oppenheim is an abstract artist exploring landscape as a place of healing and restoration. Her works draw on her background in fashion design.
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Ross Turpin — Ross Turpin is a tattoo artist and painter working across painting, drawing and tattooing. He has exhibited in Durban, Cape Town, Berlin, Hong Kong and Sydney.
An artist-led professional studio and makers' space, founded to offer artists an accessible, child-friendly, community-driven place to work, collaborate and grow. More than a studio, Mothership Studios is a living, evolving creative ecosystem.View all 13 resident artists
Mandy Johnston — Mandy Johnston is a multidisciplinary artist working with alternative materials, printmaking and experiential sculpture. With an MFA from Wits, she has recently shown at CIRCA Cape Town and AfrikaBurn.James Grimstead — James Grimstead is a watercolour and mixed-media artist whose daily sketching practice documents everyday moments and local places.Lauren Shantall — Lauren Shantall works full-time in communications and paints whenever she can. She has been exhibiting since 2022 and her work explores an ongoing fascination with plants and flowers.Jasper Wolfeman — Jasper Wolfeman is an oil and acrylic painter and floral designer, exploring queer softness, strength and intimacy through gentle mark-making.Anthea Czech — Anthea Czech is a painter exploring landscape, portraiture and abstraction, drawing on a background in computer science and psychology.Heidi Benn — Heidi Benn is a mixed-media artist working with paper, natural yarn, hand stitching and ink, exploring touch and the histories carried through hands.Janine Venter — Janine Venter is a figurative oil painter whose deeply personal portraits explore intimacy and vulnerability through colour and composition.Mandy Lake — Mandy Lake is an oil painter capturing the translucent, shifting character of the ocean through abstracted water surfaces.Nicolene Louw — Nicolene Louw is an illustrator working in pen, ink and mixed media. Her career has spanned editorial illustration, publishing and graphic recording.Dudri Du Preez — Dudri Du Preez is an artist and nature guide working between realism and abstraction, from detailed lichen studies to abstract acrylic pieces.Gabriela Gonsalves — Gabriela Gonsalves is a mixed media artist working in watercolour, ink and oils; layered colour and mark-making explore transition and change.Candice Oppenheim — Candice Oppenheim is an abstract artist exploring landscape as a place of healing and restoration. Her works draw on her background in fashion design.Ross Turpin — Ross Turpin is a tattoo artist and painter working across painting, drawing and tattooing. He has exhibited in Durban, Cape Town, Berlin, Hong Kong and Sydney.15. Fish Hoek Studios - 39 on Main Road, Fish Hoek
A shared artists' studio established in 2025, Fish Hoek Studios is home to 11 individual artist studios with a woodworking workshop below. For Open Studios, the communal space hosts a group exhibition with work from each resident artist.
A shared artists' studio established in 2025, Fish Hoek Studios is home to 11 individual artist studios with a woodworking workshop below. For Open Studios, the communal space hosts a group exhibition with work from each resident artist.Fish Hoek Mountain Route
16. Threads That Bind Us (Emma + Leila Rowett) - 106 Highway Rd, Fish Hoek
Handmade home decor by South African sisters, hand-drawn and stitched with free-motion embroidery and inspired by protea, fynbos and the Cape's natural beauty.
Handmade home decor by South African sisters, hand-drawn and stitched with free-motion embroidery and inspired by protea, fynbos and the Cape's natural beauty.17. Yda Walt - 4 Sunset Close, Fish Hoek
A textile printmaker trained in London, Yda is known for hand-printed African-proverb tea towels and homeware, as well as vibrant textile art panels and linocuts.
A textile printmaker trained in London, Yda is known for hand-printed African-proverb tea towels and homeware, as well as vibrant textile art panels and linocuts.18. Mel Miller - 6 Herschel Road, Fish Hoek
Mel is a mosaic artist trained in Italy, creating modern designs from glass, marble, semi-precious stones and found objects since 2003.
Mel is a mosaic artist trained in Italy, creating modern designs from glass, marble, semi-precious stones and found objects since 2003.19. Susan Didcott - 9 Harrington Rd, Fish Hoek
Susan is a designer and costume maker across theatre, film and fashion who is reshaping her brand toward sustainability and craftsmanship.
Susan is a designer and costume maker across theatre, film and fashion who is reshaping her brand toward sustainability and craftsmanship.20. Sheree Harrison - 27 Arthur Wright Rd, Fish Hoek
A Fine Arts graduate from Rhodes University and co-owner of Truly Fantastic canvas manufacturing, Sheree paints landscapes and florals inspired by the beauty of nature.
A Fine Arts graduate from Rhodes University and co-owner of Truly Fantastic canvas manufacturing, Sheree paints landscapes and florals inspired by the beauty of nature.Partner Venues
Pick up a map at these partners, or grab some coffee and a bite to eat along the way at Peak Café or Farm Shack Café, where you can also pick up organic veggies.
21. AP Jones, 98 Main Rd, Fish Hoek (featuring an art installation from various artists)
22. Peak Café, 72 Main Road, Fish Hoek
23. Jacqui's Framery & Art Gallery, 89 Main Road, Fish Hoek
24. Farm Shack Café, Neighbourhood Farm, Paris Rd, Fish Hoek
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