Sculptor · Painter — Stellenbosch / Australia
Original bronze and canvas — wildlife rendered with theatrical movement and a soul that stirs.
It’s not about figures. It’s about feelings, experiences, and memories that last forever.
Cast wild — and made to endure.
A study of one of the earth’s most monumental and most endangered forms, cast in bronze. Each work in the edition is an original casting, finished and patinated by hand.
Accompanied by a signed Certificate of Authenticity
The great tusker in bronze — ears like torn maps, the weight and quiet of the matriarch held in patinated metal. Each work in the edition is an original casting, finished by hand.
Accompanied by a signed Certificate of Authenticity
Caught mid-stride — all muscle and intent, the whole animal balanced on a single moment of movement. Cast in bronze and finished by hand, each work in the edition an original.
Accompanied by a signed Certificate of Authenticity
The arch of the neck, the flare of breath — a horse’s head held in bronze, still carrying its motion. Each work in the edition an original casting, finished by hand.
Accompanied by a signed Certificate of AuthenticityThe story of The White Rhino — vasbyt, the Afrikaans word for the will to endure.
My bronzes are cast at SCS Foundry, where each edition is poured and finished by hand. Here, my Leopard takes form.
David Francois Rabie works between abstraction with a theatrical sense of movement and realism that breathes life through soulful eyes. His preferred mediums move from ink, charcoal and pencil to vibrant abstract colour — and into bronze.
Drawing primarily from nature and wildlife, he finds his subject in the beauty and majesty of the natural world.
“My life is art.”
He credits his mother, the internationally acclaimed artist Teresa Decinti, for instilling a deep appreciation for the craft — an artistic lineage he proudly carries forward.
The work, at home — in the room, and on the land that shaped it.
Private acquisitions & commissions
Bronze editions and original works, each accompanied by a signed Certificate of Authenticity. Enquiries are welcome from collectors and galleries worldwide.