Creative Compass Club

Find Your Artistic Direction 🧭

The Creative Compass Club is designed to help you discover and refine your unique creative voice. Through guided exploration and inspiring prompts, this club encourages you to experiment across mediums, push artistic boundaries, and gain confidence in your creative expression.

How It Works

• Exploratory Creative Briefs 🎨 – Weekly prompts challenge you to think outside the box and experiment freely.
• Multi-Medium Approach ✏️🖌️ – Try different techniques, styles, and materials to expand your artistic range.
• Guided Support 🧑🎨 – Coaches provide encouragement and insights to help you develop your creative instincts.
• Community Inspiration 🤝 – Share your journey and gain inspiration from fellow artists navigating their own creative paths.
• Build Your Unique Style 🌟 – Learn to trust your instincts and cultivate a distinct artistic voice.

Who is This Club For?

• Artists searching for their own artistic identity and direction.
• Creators looking to step outside their comfort zones and try new things.
• Anyone wanting to develop confidence in their creative decisions.
• Artists at any level who enjoy self-exploration and creative play.

Fanie Buys is a South African artist currently based in London. Buys works in a figurative style considering the role of traditional portraiture in contemporary society. Using found images, AI, and unconventional subject matter: Buys considers the act of painting as a performative meditation to realise hidden, often tongue-in-cheek, meaning. Erudite, verbose, but always witty, Buys’ work is a developing practice considering himself as an artist juxtaposed against a critical disdain of people who put that in their artist’s statements.

Buys was a co-recipient of the Judy Steinberg Award for Painting and the Simon Gerson Award for an exceptional body of work. Buys has been included in several group shows and has mounted several solo presentations, namely: Miss in 2021 and Happy Birthday Jesus! in 2019 (both at 99 Loop gallery in Cape Town).