Santie Cronje
A painter and storyteller, a migrant and a traveller.
New Zealand has been my home since 1999, but South Africa is where my story began.
Living across hemispheres and moving between places has shaped how I see and make art.
I paint memory, place, belonging and the things we carry with us. Sometimes the story is recognisable; sometimes it's reduced to colour, structure, fragments and feeling.
After years of building community as director and curator of Deciduus Gallery, I'm back in the studio with a renewed sense of freedom. The places I've lived and the houses I've called home are all material, and there's plenty left to tell.
The Studio Collection
A selection of paintings currently available directly from my studio, bringing together personal works from my collection alongside more recent paintings. I am currently developing a new body of work, with the next collection to be released in mid-November.











