A freshly painted red barn, depicted against a building bank of clouds.
#714 The Red Barn
ORIGINAL OIL ON CANVAS: 100cm x 100cm
Available at Manzart Contemporary, Franschhoek
PRINTS ON PAPER; Edition sizes
30cm x 30cm
60cm x 60cm
PRINTS ON CANVAS; Edition sizes
80cm x 80cm
About the Karoo
The Karoo is a semi-desert of South Africa. The Karoo is partly defined by its landscape, geology, and climate — above all, its low rainfall, arid air, cloudless skies, and extremes of heat and cold. The Karoo also hosted a well-preserved eco-system which is now represented by many fossils.
The Karoo formed an almost solid barrier to the interior from Cape Town, and the early explorers and hunters on the way to the Highveld denounced it as a fearsome place of great heat, great frosts, great floods and great droughts. Today it is still a place of great heat and frosts, and an yearly rainfall of between 50–250 mm, though on some of the mountains it can be 250–500 mm higher than on the plains. However, underground water is found throughout the Karoo, which can be tapped by boreholes, making sheep farming possible.