Babalwa Mhlauli's Claremont studio is a riot of colour, every wall covered with her large and vibrant artworks. In the next room, paintings spill from the walls on to the floor. And there are more at the framers.
There's no container large enough, it would seem, to contain Mhlauli's creativity and her enthusiasm and sheer energy are evident as we speak.
Spending an hour in her company is like drinking six energy drinks - it gives you wings.
"It's amazing," 30-year-old Mhlauli agrees as I comment on the sheer volume of her work, "it blows me away sometimes."
As we chat, she keeps on dropping another talent into the conversation - "I'm a dancer", "I'm a poet", "I'm a fashion designer".
These are the talents she's bringing together in her one-woman art exhibition and performance at Isilimela Comprehensive in Langa on Friday, a show she hopes will inspire young people.
Mhlauli is remarkable for many things, and some may remember her as the youngest person to testify at the TRC, at the age of 19.
She is the daughter of Scelo Mhlauli, one of the Cradock Four, who was killed when she was only nine.
"I told them that we wanted to forgive, but we didn't know whom to forgive," Mhlauli says simply.
She approached the TRC, she says, because children are often left behind. "They're part and parcel of what's going on, and much more observant that you think."
It was the beginning of a warm relationship with Archbishop Desmond Tutu - "Please say he's my hero," she says - and she was extremely honoured when Tutu visited her at her flat to see her paintings last year.
"It was my most defining moment - he showed me love and encouraged me, he gave me wings to soar."
Throughout her life she's known she needed to make a difference in the country. Her exhibition on Friday is one way she plans to do this.
The theme of the exhibition is child abuse.
Her aim is to give young people hope.
"We need to support children. When you believe in a child, and you show love, you don't know how far it goes in opening them up.
"The heart of my exhibition is to go to areas where people are raped and killed, and say 'You're worthy.' "
Mhlauli always wanted to study art, but was not encouraged to do so. "I was born an artist, it's a calling, my purpose. But I was told I wouldn't make any money, so I studied travel and tourism and then journalism."
She worked for television and radio stations, and travelled extensively.
"I consider travel abroad as empowering me to be a more eclectic and broad artist, in touch with the global village. It was good for me as a poet, and it did a lot for my writing.
"It's essential for an artist who's in the business of being a carrier of culture."
Mhlauli has spent just over two years creating the over 50 paintings. "I've stopped counting, but I do at least one or two a month.
"Art is medicine for the heart, it unifies people. I'm a great communicator, I want to tell the truth as I see it," she says.
She is not yet ready to sell her paintings, but is planning to have an exhibition later this year.
In her studio, she has books by Desmond Tutu and Steve Bantu Biko; there's the Bhagavad Gita as well as Hillary Clinton's book; an O magazine and a book on Madonna and Bob Marley.
"Everything inspires me that's positive," she says. "We are all made for something more. God needs us to make his dreams come true."
Mhlauli has something of the preacher and prophet in her, her speech peppered with "we should" and "we must", and she's on a mission to change the lives of children, through love.
"When I was a child I was shown so much love. And Mama Leah (Tutu) and Bishop Tutu are my spiritual parents. To live your life through love is all you can do; all you can do to be happy is to love."
Mhlauli says every moment is extraordinary for her, and she intends making dramatic changes in society. "People need to accelerate change - there is work to be done, there is everyday healing to be done."
What people need, she says, is to feel worthy, to have self-esteem. "We can't be defined by money this and money that."
Pupils from Rosebank House College, her old school, and other schools in Langa, will attend her event on Friday, and it's open to the public.
She's excited and confident that it'll be a resounding success: "I want to resculpture the community with my paintbrush," says Mhlauli.
And you'd better believe this young dynamo won't let anything get in the way of doing it.