Visual Expressions 2025

SCAVA’s “Visual Expressions” Competition and Exhibition of 2025, opened on Friday evening, 29 August 2025 in the Sayers Auditorium of the George Museum. The renowned judges were, Prof Elfriede Dreyer, Fawa Conradie, and Juria le Roux.

This year’s competition was opened to members and non-members from age 16 upwards. We had 67 artists participating with a total of 152 artworks, including 7 students from the Inkcubeko Youth Science Centre. Truly inspiring.

This exhibition was a celebration in honouring the arts and was further enriched by the beautiful music of the Outeniqua High School Jazz Band, who performed to a packed auditorium of artists, patrons, and guests.

It is no small thing for an artists to put down the first mark on an glaring white canvas, to put your heart and soul into a painting and then putting it on display for all to see. Each and every artist that participated was celebrated for doing just that.

SCAVA had the privilege to have generous sponsors for our competition namely: Attic Atelier our Gold sponsor of R10 000, House of Bloom, The Little Art Shop and Artsavingsclub. Their support played a tremendous role in making our competition the resounding success that it was, encouraging creativity and shining a light on visual arts.

SCAVA proudly continued its ODIN fundraiser, inviting artists to submit miniature artworks sold at R500 each in support of animal welfare. The response was overwhelming, and the artworks were displayed in the foyer of the Sayers Auditorium. Our members again made a meaningful contribution to this worthy cause.

Competition Results

Abstract: 1st place: Nature's Matrix - Rosa Snyman Wessels. 2nd place: Drift - Theresa Pieters-Oldewage. 3rd place: Simme Shelter - Marietha Smit
Landscape/Interior/Seascape/Urban landscape: 1st place: All has purpose - Shania Heydon. 2nd place: Prince Albert, Late Afternoon - Ferdo Voigt. 3rd place: Landmark - Gerrit Jordaan
Merit award: Bo-Karoo - Mien Greyling. Boundless - Thelma Kahts

Floral /Still Life: 2nd place: Still life with desert Landscape - Mien Greyling. 3rd place: Kaaimans Meditation 1- Gerrit Jordaan
Merit award: Roses for You - Zanne Small

Portrait/Figure Category: 1st place: Ja Meneer, Ja Mevrou - Natali Downing. 2nd place: I Said No - Cole Hay. 3rd place: Daily Walk - Mien Greyling|
Merit award: Roxanne - Niki Saunders. Old Man - Susan Dekker

Animal/Wildlife Category: 1st place: Delft into the Deep - Ferdo Voigt. 2nd place: Seekat I - Adri Botha. 3rd place: The dinner party - Brett Gendall
Merit award: Seekat II - Adri Botha

ArtsSavings Club’s Viewer’s Choice Trophy was awarded to Thelma Kaths for her painting “The Golden Harvest and the Gathering Storm”.

Participating Artists