Andrea Court is an artist, writer and more importantly a day dreamer.
Born in the Eastern Cape of South Africa in the mid sixties, to an Afrikaans father and a British-American mother she experienced and witnessed life from many different perspectives during a particularly dark period in South African history.
The most significant event of her young life was the death of her father when she was only three years old. That single event caused a ripple effect in her immediate and extended family that influenced the way she viewed the world and the people around her.
She has a great love for the African people, music and the African fauna and flora.
She openly admits that she does not see herself as South African and has always felt like a visitor in a foreign land, but one cannot live in Africa and not have it creep into your soul.
She has lived in the Eastern Cape (East London and Port Alfred), Eastern Free State (Clarens) and the Western Cape (Cape Town) of South Africa and has travelled both outside and within Africa to other countries.
Not political but rather an observer of all, she believes completely in justice, freedom and the right of everything and everyone to exist without pain or oppression. She is also a single mother, in her words, “a REAL single mother, not one the fake kind who proclaim singleness yet live with, are divorced from or share custody with their child/rens father”. She also calls herself the ‘anti-parent’, but for the specifics on that, best ask directly.
Constantly amazed and in awe of the beauty of nature and equally appalled by the cruelty and ugliness of mankind she keeps to herself as much as possible, finding interaction simultaneously demanding and disappointing.
She has studied towards a Fine Art Diploma, a Diploma CivEng Tech, a B Soc Sci, a BVA and a B Com Business Management. She believes academia is questionable at best and has some very sound reasons for that belief.
A wannabe hippy, an animal lover and almost a vegetarian!
