{"id":683,"count":9,"description":"Rina Benz is a self-taught artist, living in the beautiful city of Cape Town, South Africa.\r\nShe creates pastiched sculptures from polymer clay, recyclables and Paverpol (a fabric hardener), combining different styles, mediums and ideas.\r\nRina has always been an artist, doing drama and dance at school, obtaining a BA in Drama at the university of Stellenbosch, teaching  drama and dance (from Ballroom-and-Latin American to hiphop), moving on to painting murals at home, making invitations and decor for events  and later sculpting with cakes and modelling chocolate.\r\nA dragon cake and its story led to a change in medium for Rina in 2018. \r\nIn the search for a more permanent medium than edibles, she found \r\nPolymer clay and Paverpol and has not looked back since. \r\nShe is an active member of SASA (the South African Society of Artists) and                                       her work can often be seen at the society\u2019s exhibitions at Kirstenbosch.\r\nThe question is always why an artist does what an artist does, and her answer: \r\n\u2018I can\u2019t help myself. There is an undeniable call in my soul to create. It brings me incredible joy, to bring beauty, fantasy and imagination into the world, bringing my own thoughts on the meaning of life and the world into being and it is my own form of therapy.\u2019\r\nShe finds inspiration in everything, the people who cross her path, relationships, special moments, nature, Africa, art, news, events, random thoughts, stories, history, books\u2026 basically life and its abundant layers!\r\nRina works from home where the \u2018braai-room\u2019 is often filled with art-in-creation, spilling out of her small studio. \r\nCreating her sculptures is an extension of who she is and her love for \u2018the journey\u2019\r\n","link":"https:\/\/www.kunyeartfoundation.org\/?product_cat=rina-benz","name":"Rina Benz","slug":"rina-benz","taxonomy":"product_cat","parent":43,"meta":[],"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kunyeartfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product_cat\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kunyeartfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product_cat"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kunyeartfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/product_cat"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunyeartfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product_cat\/43"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kunyeartfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct&product_cat=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}