Who I
am?
I
am Tharrie Zietsman and I create and paint PraiseCreatures©. PraiseCreatures© is
a God inspired dream in me that I live every day, and it is a joy to let them
dance and leap and praise God from my heart onto paper to bless you.
I
work in a studio in Calgary with 2 assistants: MissCleo, (a tabby cat) and
Princi (a black cat). I use pencils and watercolour and whatever I can find to
create each unique PraiseCreatures – for you.
I
am married to Johann, and owe him a great debt of gratitude for his
unconditional love and support, and for listening to my endless babbling – love
you!
I
dedicate PraiseCreatures© to Max, my grandson: let Praises to Him be known to
your lips!
Bio
I grew
up on a farm in South Africa, where I spent hours drawing, painting, making
music & creating “something” - followed by a degree and grad-degree in fine
Arts & teaching. I was also trained as a Marionette designer, maker &
operator and later appointed as head of the Propshop for Drama, Ballet and Opera
for a Performing Arts Company in South Africa.
After
becoming a stay-at-home-mom I started and ran Marionette companies, an
Educational program, and taught History of Art, Painting, Drawing, Sculpting
and Needlework for different age groups – Kindergarten to Post-graduates.
My
family – me, my husband Johann, Eber and Fritz immigrated to the USA in 2002.
We lived in NY and Arizona. In 2009 Johann and I immigrated to Calgary, Canada
where we still live today.
Since emigrating
from South Africa I have been working from my various home-based studios,
creating my painting and 3D doll-textile series: “A Lady’s Journey”, and
inspirational series: Frangels©. I had a couple of solo-exhibitions and
exhibited extensively at local Art and Craft Markets. I am currently working on
a 365-day PraiseCreatures©-a-day challenge (2017-2018).
You
can follow this challenge on my blog, as well as my Facebook and Instagram accounts.
What
is a PraiseCreatures©?
It is a joyous, dancing,
exuberant creature praising God, the Lord of all Lords. No matter how I feel,
or my troubles or my situation – praising Him allows me to get out of myself
and simply praise God for who He is!
Praising Him lifts me up from my “all about me-me” world and sets my
attention purely on Him – my vision changes and my perspective shifts.
It is not thanksgiving, which is again all about ME – thanking Him for
specific gifts and blessings He bestowed on me. It is also not worship, where I surrender, with deep
respect, kneeling and humbling myself, as He is in control of my heart as Lord
of Lords. Praising is different: It is fun, it is joy and it is action!
It has nothing to do with me
but ALL ABOUT WHO HE IS. It is recognition of His character, His nature, His
different names that are facets of who He is and His excellence. He is awesome
and worthy to be praised. And so much more.
He dwells in our praises and
Praises surround His throne. So how can I not praise Him with my art! (Let us be honest – I can jump and shout and
be foolish when my favourite sport team hero scores, so why not when I Praise
the Hero of all Heroes!) This is what each PraiseCreatures© is. They are never
silent – always making a loud noise or singing or even foolishly shouting! They
are standing, lifting up their hands, dancing, with new glorious jubilant
songs. Perhaps with a trumpet or flute,
harp, cymbals and tambourines, all kinds of instruments. The essence of a
PraiseCreatures© is the pure joy of living on this incredible earth and to
Praise the Lord as His sons and daughters while we still have breath. Get out
of me-zone into He-zone!
I invite you to join me on a 365-day,
a PraiseCreatures©-a-day challenge, praising the Lord, and to circle the earth
with praises.
I created PraiseCreatures© to
bring a smile to faces and a moment when we forget about our needs, and
brokenness, and to focus on He who is Love. I let them dance and leap and shout
with hearts on their chests, because God is interested in hearts and not
appearances. I paint their skin in yellow-gold simply because I love the
colour….and yes, no hair – just because I can!
It is for the young at heart,
it is for toddlers and teens, moms and dads, teenagers and students. It is for grannies
and uncles, lawyers and farmers….. for everyone that has breath to praise Him.
I sincerely pray that you are blessed with each PraiseCreatures© and enjoy
them.
Spread the Word!
You can subscribe to this
blog, or connect to my Facebook, or Instagram or you can contact me at tharriezietsman@gmail.com
I will sing to the Lord
as long as I live
I will praise my God to
my last breath!
May all my thoughts be
pleasing to Him, for I rejoice in the LORD.
Let all that I am praise
the LORD.
Praise the
LORD! Psalm 104:33, 34, 35b. NLT
Thank you
Tharrie Zietsman
Copyright
Please be so kind and do not
copy any of my PraiseCreatures© in ANY form without my written permission.
PraiseCreatures© is copyrighted
in my name, and thus it is against the law to copy it.
I reserve any and all rights
of copyright concerning the artwork(s), in any form, including the sale of
rights of reproduction of the artwork(s) in any form, unless specifically
granted in writing by the artist, Tharrie Zietsman.
Among the artist’s rights is
the sole right to reproduce the artwork(s) in any form for any purpose, that
may include, but not limited to, sale, license, use of gallery exhibition,
show, internet web-site display, promotional work, any printed format, bulletins,
including any form of printing and/or any electronic reproduction.
Tharrie Zietsman, the artist
is the sole proprietress, holder of PraiseCreatures©
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