KNYSNA NEWS - Artist Bryan Keenan is still making colourful images at the Woodmill Lane shopping centre in central Knysna, where he's been painting for 15 years.
“I do it (paint) as it comes along - I get a feeling and then off I go. Since I lost my fingers, I decided it's something I can do,” Keenan, who lives in a home for the aged, and turns 73 on 17 July, said.
He sells his paintings from his work site at the shopping centre, and some of his works are commissioned. “I'm busy with a little dog now - for a chap who made a down payment, and when I give it (work) to him, he pays the rest.”
Born in Germiston, he moved to Knysna in 2000 after “doing all sorts of things”. Among them, he worked as a train driver in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, for 15 years, “on diamond boats in Port Nolloth (Northern Cape)”, and in the movie industry.
He says art and music “are my life – I play the keyboard, violin, guitar and harmonica – and I thoroughly enjoy what I’m doing, I wouldn’t have it any other way”.
“I can paint anything and everything; there’s no such thing as ‘can’t’ – can’t doesn’t exist.”
Bryan Keenan’s painting of the ‘Model A Ford 1927-1930'
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