Isak W. Koch - Home Sweet Home I Welt im Wandel Kollektion (Fuchs)

Home sweet Home
70 cm x 50 cm / 19.6 in x 27.5 in (LxH)
Acrylic painting on high-quality canvas (stretcher frame)
hand-signed and sealed
'World in Change' - Collection (Fuchs)
2025
Including a signed authenticity certificate.


About the painting

This painting titled 'Home Sweet Home' combines a sense of wildness and nostalgia with a dramatic and almost dreamlike atmosphere.
On the right side, a fox dominates the composition. Its piercing amber eyes stare directly at the viewer, full of vigilance and an almost human depth of emotion. The fox's fur glows in fiery orange and red tones, blending seamlessly into the environment, as if it were both a creature of the land and a flame born from it. The brushstrokes are bold, textured, and dynamic, giving the animal a lively, untamed presence.
On the left side, we see the ruins of an ancient stone building. The structure is skeletal, with tall arches and windows illuminated by a luminous, golden light. The decaying walls suggest abandonment and the passage of time, but the light within the openings gives it a lasting warmth and reminds us that it was once a home full of life. The ground beneath and around the ruins is covered with wild grasses and shrubs painted in fiery hues that reflect the fox's fur.



Together, the fox and the ruins tell a story.

This place, long abandoned by humans, has been reclaimed by nature. What was once a human home has now become a refuge for the wilderness. The fox is now the guardian of this land, its new owner and inhabitant. The title 'Home Sweet Home' carries a double meaning – what was once the home of humans has now become the home of the fox. It suggests resilience and adaptability, the idea that home is not only the place where you live but also the place where you belong, whether in crumbling ruins or in the surrounding wilderness.

The painting appears both melancholic and hopeful – melancholic because of the lost human presence, hopeful because of the way nature persists and redefines what 'Heimat' means.



About the artist:

Isak Koch (*1962); artist and photographer

Isak Wilhelmus Koch (* June 8, 1962, in Vrede, South Africa) is a versatile and talented artist and photographer who has already gained significant popularity not only in his homeland but also in the USA, Canada, and Europe.

Isak grew up as the son of a farming family in a rural area of South Africa, where his fascination and love for animals and nature developed. This fact is still strongly reflected in his paintings, drawings, and photographs today.

After school and A-levels (1980), he studied graphic design at the Technical University in Vanderbijlpark, Gauteng. Here, he began experimenting with a wide range of styles and motifs, mastering them over the course of his career. These include, alongside realism: surrealism, impressionism, abstract art, pencil drawings, scientific and digital illustrations, as well as (art) photography.

Er Malt because he loves painting, because he hopes that through his work, he can bring the viewer closer to, or make them feel, the beauty and rhythm of the seemingly banal things in our world.

Numerous private and public exhibitions followed, including in South Africa and Namibia (1990-2014, among others in buildings of the South African government), Canada, the United States, Great Britain, Australia, Portugal, and Germany (including Heilbronn; Lörrach, Weil am Rhein, Öhringen).
Since 2015, Isak has been living and working in Schefflenz, near Mosbach (Baden).

His motifs are found in nature: in flora and fauna, as well as in landscape scenes, with a preference for abandoned places, serving as a visual metaphor of transience. Man-made creations are returned to what is inherently there — nature and time. Both represent the dissolution of existing structures and change.