Wildlife is not approached here as decoration.
Sarika Purchase is a Johannesburg-based fine artist and founder of Art of Story.
Recently awarded Wildlife Artist of the Year 2025, Johannesburg.
If it isn’t felt, it isn’t wild.
It is approached as atmosphere, tension, presence, and psychological weight.
The work focuses on large-format charcoal wildlife executions developed around:
restraint,
control,
awareness,
and the conditions of the wild.
Built to create exterior–interior continuity within spaces where atmosphere matters.
Executed in charcoal on archival cotton paper,
the work operates within conditions that expose every mark against a black field.
At scale, precision cannot be concealed or corrected.
Founder & Director, ART OF STORY (PTY)LTD
www.artofstory.co.za