A large colourful mixed media painting of an elephant incorporating African symbols. The artwork is entitled Big Wisdom by South African artist Ann Gadd.  

Ann has taken her more complex expressionistic style of the past and simplified her more recent works to a more naïve yet somewhat surrealistic style. 

Gone are her wild colourful brushstrokes, to be replaced by a more textured, simplified, and mature approach to her work. Occasionally her quirky sense of humour emerges in her works as in the Ambitious Sheep series. Her sense of colour has remained although tempered with experience.

Ann Gadd is a popular contemporary artist who has exhibited her work numerous times both locally and abroad.