Ballerina – Oil on Canvas by Cornelie Wolff

Ballerina – Oil on Canvas by Cornelie Wolff

Dimensions: 400  x 400 cm x 40 mm

Medium: Oil

Cornelie Wolff’s Ballerina is a luminous celebration of grace, movement, and poise captured in oil on canvas. The painting draws the viewer into an intimate moment of dance, where the ballerina, poised mid-motion, embodies both elegance and quiet strength. Wolff’s masterful brushwork captures the delicate textures of flowing fabric and the subtle tension of muscles in motion, creating a sense of fluidity that almost seems to extend beyond the canvas.

Oil on Canvas

Cornelie Wolff Approaching Art from a Different Angle

This Johannesburg-based artist started as a pharmacist.  After completing her Honours Degree in Psychology, she joined Helios to further her skills in Art Therapy.   During this time, she fell in love with art, the process and the emotional power it yields.

While raising her family, which consisted of three young children, she took part-time classes with Rika de Klerk and Willie Jacobs.  She also attended workshops led by Koos Bronkhorst, Niel Moss, Willie Jacobs, Rentia Coetzee, Ruth Walters, Elize Bezuidenhout, Douw van Heerden, Charla Maarschalk, and Jennifer McChristian.

Today, she practices what she preaches by creating her work under the motto: “With every painting I complete, I grow as a person and an artist.”

My art is created from a place of wonder – it is my dream for every human to never completely lose the child inside them, because it is our ability to see wonder and magic in things.  I use bold brushstrokes, contrast and an impressionistic approach to entice the viewer to create their own interpretation of the subject and become part of my world.