Finding the beauty in simplicity

By Kate Stark
Updated October 8 2016 - 9:56am, first published October 7 2016 - 7:00am
Brisbane chalk artist Emanuel Wit talks about what inspires him to create temporary chalk art drawings.
Brisbane chalk artist Emanuel Wit talks about what inspires him to create temporary chalk art drawings.
  • Tell us a little bit about yourself?

My name is Emanuel Wit, my art name 'Manu' comes from a surfing adventure I had and the name stuck. My father is European and my mother is Dutch/German. I was born in Brisbane and I'm the middle of three boys. My interest in art largely came from my Aunt, who was an artist, who learned to paint from her husband. He suffered from a lung condition and he didn't live very long, so I didn't really get to know him, but she did a lot of painting. As a child, when I visited with my parents, I would explore her house and she had collected all sorts of interesting things and I would enjoy losing myself in her backyard in my imagination. It was something about that experience of visiting her and getting to know her that I only later realised that’s why I was drawn to art.

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