Deodanda Pretorius is a professional oil and pastel artist. She considers herself an expressive naturalist painter combining and often pushing expressive elements such as colour, light/dark elements and the time of day with the skill of technical draughtsmanship usually associated with natural realism works. She focuses on floral and still life works, animal portrait studies and landscapes using oil paints and dry media such as pastel, charcoal, and graphite.