My Story

I grew up in a few very small towns in the Free State of South Africa. And when I say small I mean small, like 13 kids in my matric year. Places where I could be wild and solitary and get lost in the Lesotho mountains if I wanted to, but where I still found myself.

I find joy in many many things, books and poetry, the sound of the sea and quietness of a fynbos veld, walls full of graffiti in Woodstock and Soutrivier. Besides collecting rocks and plastic dinosaurs, I also write poetry, which may appear randomly on the website.

I was a geologist for years, but then I did a friend’s website in the middle of the 2000s by teaching myself HTML and CSS and I was hooked. I was, and still am, fascinated by the contrast of the HTML language at the backend that is just code and the output of a beautiful website that can be viewed by someone in Iceland on the opposite site of the globe. 

I worked for a corporate company as the inhouse web designer for many years, but it is the freelance work I do for small businesses where my passion lies. Anyway so here I am, now living in Observatory, Cape Town, as a freelance web designer, designing websites and logos and brochures and booklets or whatever can be done with Wordpress, Adobe Photoshop, Indesign, Dreamweaver and the imagination.