Augustinus, Paul

Augustinus, Paul

"I am not an artist who has looked for a subject to paint. Rather it is the romance of wild game country that has made me want to be an artist". Born at Haderslev in Denmark in 1952, Paul Augustinus was raised and schooled in Mombasa, Kenya. He has travelled extensively in Africa. View his work

Bailey, Beezy

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Bailey, Beezy

"I am often asked what does that ship, or car, or high heel shoe mean. I am not an illustrator; I release the images that appear before me. Like Picasso, I say that it is not for me to explain the contents of my work; this is for the viewer to do. Each of my works is a frozen dream. Images & legends enter from my subconscious, the world of my imagination.

Barker, Wayne Cahill

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Barker, Wayne

Born: Pretoria, South Africa, 1963

Tertiary Education: Postgraduate Degree, Fine Art, Ecole des Beux Art, Luminy, Marseille, France, 1998

BA Fine Art, Michaelis, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 1984

Diploma Fine Art, Technikon Pretoria, South Africa, 1981

Beck, Sidney

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Beck, Sidney

Sidney Beck was born 10 February 1936 in Bertrams, Johannesburg. He had no formal art training but as a child was fascinated by reproductions of the old masters. Educated in Vrededorp, Beck trained as a teacher, and taught for twenty-three years. Since then he has worked as an artist, mostly as a sculptor.

Becker, Carl

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Becker, Carl

A mere change of vantage point can entirely reinvent a thing to which you’ve grown inured. New Life: It’s simply not what you thought it was before. In Carl Becker’s paintings and pencil drawings, that something is the city of Johannesburg.

Bell, Deborah

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Bell, Deborah

Deborah Bell is one of South Africa´s most acclaimed artists, a transcendent sculptor, painter and printmaker.

Benade, Hanneke

Benade, Hanneke

Hanneke’s award-winning soft pastels are quiet and pensive figurative works, depicted with exquisitely delicate formal skill. Characteristically focusing on women shown in calm, contemplative poses, her figures are bathed in a tranquil light creating a timeless, Baroque-like stillness.

Botting, Nick

Botting, Nick

Nick Botting only paints en plain air and has tramped much around the world, including urban and rural Britain, Pakistan and the Australian outback.

BRENNER, JONI

BRENNER, JONI

Graduated in 1996 with distinctions for both practical and theoretical research at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Brink, Anton

Brink, Anton

“I am inspired to make art by everything I see and hear and think and feel – it is a passion, it is essential for me to express myself with things I make with my hands".

Bromley, David

Bromley, David

Bromley was born in 1960, Sheffield, in the UK. He moved to Australia in 1964, where he now lives and works in Adelaide. Self-taught artist David Bromley´s paintings are about childhood adventures and loss of innocence.

Burger, Francki

Burger, Francki

Francki Burger was born in Johannesburg in 1966, matriculated from Linden Hoërskool in 1984, after which she gained a Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design from the University of Stellenbosch in 1988.

Burnett, Ricky

Burnett, Ricky

Ricky Burnett was born in Birmingham, England in 1949, to Patricia & Leslie Burnett. In 1955 Leslie left Birmingham for the South African Highveld to take up a contract with the OK Bazaars.

Butler, James

Butler, James

James Butler was born in London in 1931. He studied at Maidstone School of Art, St. Martin´s School of Art and at the Royal College of Art, London.

Conroy, Stephen

Conroy, Stephen

Stephen Conroy was born in Helensburgh, Scotland in 1964. In 1987 he attended the Glasgow School of Art where he also completed his postgraduate studies, finishing in1987. By 1989 Conroy´s work had already gained much recognition and praise in the United Kingdom and internationally.

De Gallard, Michel

De Gallard, Michel

De Gallard was born on the 1st April 1921, at Villiefranche-d’Allier. He originally studied medicine but gave this up in 1943 to study painting at the Arts Decoratifs and L´Ecole Charpenteir.

Devlin, George

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Devlin, George

George Devlin was elected a member of The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (R.S.W.) in 1964 aged only 27. He was awarded a major Arts Council Award in 1968 and established his own painting...

Du Toit, Guy

Du Toit, Guy

Guy Du Toit was born 1958 in Rustenburg in the North West Province. He uses a wide range of media in his sculptures including bronze, stone, wood and steel. Du Toit’s apparent irreverence can obfuscate the fact that he is undoubtedly one of South Africa’s most accomplished sculptors.

Dyaloyi, Ricky

Dyaloyi, Ricky

Living in Khayelitsha, Dyaloyi paints with an uncanny determination, trying to unravel the mysteries of the human condition through his medium. Rubbing sand into his oil paints and using mostly untreated canvases or rough board his work resonates his environment and subjects.

Evans, Kerri-Jane

Evans, Kerri-Jane

Figurative representation is where I find my greatest delight, that sense of pleasure and identification with the emotional aspects of life.

Fraser, Colin

Fraser, Colin

Colin Fraser was born in 1956 in Glasgow , Scotland. When he was 7 he and his family then moved to live in Surrey.

Galeano, Raimondo

Galeano, Raimondo

Galeano, through his creation, seeks to overcome the limitations created by colour. In fact, the colour, depending on the different exposure to light, undergoes a transformation.

Gollifer, Ann

GOLLIFER, ANN

Ann Gollifer works in london, Johannesburg and Gaborone, Botswana. She has lived and worked in Gaborone since 1985. Born in British Guiana, (Guyana), 1960. In 1983 she graduated from Edinburgh University with a Masters degree in History of Art. An Artist member of the Thapong Visual Art Centre, Gaborone, Ann was part of the executive committee, responsible for the building of the centre.

Gütter, Pauline

Gütter, Pauline

Gutter was born in 1980 and grew up on the farm, Nuwe Orde, in the Free State. She has a deeply rooted understanding for landscape, cattle and farmers. Her work draws a parallel of metaphors to the permanent "removal" of the farming community from their land, leaving them vulnerable and helpless due to their current situation.

Hanekom, Sandra

Hanekom, Sandra

Sandra Hanekom was born in 1971. After matriculating from the Johannesburg School for the Arts (previously Die Kruin), she studied Fine Arts at Stellenbosch University. She has been working as an artist from 1994, participating in various group exhibitions both nationally and internationally.

Hartslief, Sasha

Hartslief, Sasha

Although she was blessed with an innate & prodigious talent for painting, she also has the more rare penchant for hard work. Consequently Hartslief has a well-earned a reputation as a highly skilful draftsman. Her subjects are often viewed from a philosophical, deeply personal perspective, resulting in striking works that are emotionally charged, pensive in mood and considered in composition.

Hlungwani, Phillemon

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Hlungwani, Phillemon

Hlungwani is one of our most promising young artists in South Africa. He is an extremely talented and dedicated artist who has cemented his importance in the art world through the consistent production of relevant and inspired works.

Hodgkinson, Ed

Hodgkinson, Ed

Large-scale, enamel on aluminium, Hodgkinson’s paintings are strikingly graphic. Using a pared down but powerfully descriptive line against a backdrop of flat colour, his work is fundamentally concerned with drawing.

Jaroszynska, Karin

Jaroszynska, Karin

Karin Jaroszynska was born in 1934 in Helsinki, Finland into both a musical and artistic family. Jaroszynska was accepted by the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, and it was here that she pursued her Fine Art studies between the years 1951 and 1956 where she met fellow student Tadeusz Jaroszynski, whom she married in 1954.

Jaroszynski, Tadeusz

Jaroszynski, Tadeusz

Tadeusz Jaroszynski was born in 1933 in Makarska, a Yugoslavian fishing village. His family lived in Makarska until the Second World War when they were forced to flee, enduring several years of travelling from country to country. They settled finally in Zimbabwe, where Tadeusz received his first formal education.

JEPPE, CARL

JEPPE, CARL

Carl Jeppe was born in Krugersdorp in 1949. After matriculating at St John´s College he enrolled at Pretoria College for Advanced Technical Education. In 1981 he was appointed full time lecturer at the Technikon in Pretoria.

Joubert, Keith

Joubert, Keith

Keith Joubert´s seemingly effortless renditions of Africa with their contemporary vision,impeccable draftsmanship and tonality gain rapidly increasing acknowledgment internationally.

Khumalo, Vusi

Khumalo, Vusi

Khumalo, by reconstructing the infamous squatter camps, takes us where we might, otherwise, fear to tread and, perhaps, reminds us that behind the media facade of brutality, crime and squalor, these "growths" on our landscape are populated by human beings under trying circumstances.

Krige, Francois

Krige, Francois

Artist, traveller and recluse, Francois Krige remained something of an enigma in the South African art world during a long career spanning much of the twentieth century.

Kuhfeld, Peter

Kuhfeld, Peter

Painter of landscapes, townscapes, portraits and interiors in oils. Born in Cheltenham, he trained at Leicester Polytechnic from 1972-1976 and at the RA Schools under Peter Greenham from 1977-1980 where he was awarded the David Murray Landscape Prize.1978 and 1979, a silver medal for drawing and the Dooley Prize for anatomical drawing.

Leigh, Nichola Alice

Leigh, Nichola Alice

She was taught by her father, Derek Leigh, artist and senior arts lecturer at the University of KwaZulu Natal. After graduating she worked for a year as an assistant at the Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg, and following that as a layout artist at the Natal Witness.

Letsoalo, Amos

Letsoalo, Amos

Amos Letsoalo was born in 1969 in Molepo vilage, Limpopo Province. His interest in art was inspired by his mother´s decorave, traditional African paintings, done with earth pigments on the walls of their house.

Lewis, Dylan

Lewis, Dylan

Dylan Lewis is a South African artist who has emerged as one of the foremost figures in contemporary sculpture.

Lourens, MJ

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Lourens, MJ

Lourens’s striking and atmospheric cityscapes have always been driven by the sombre beauty of the urban landscape at dusk. These landscapes serve as an expression of the way in which people organise and plot their existence.

Louw, Paula

Louw, Paula

Paula Louw gained Her Fine Art Degree at UNISA in 2002, and she has just completed her MAFA in 2007, with distinction, at the University of the Witwatersrand. Louw also has a diploma in Fine Art from the University of Johannesburg, (then Witwatersrand /Pretoria Technikon), gained in 1977.

Mahlangu, Speelman

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Mahlangu, Speelman

Mahlangu´s imagery is uniquely African. He has long been interested in South Africa´s "homecoming" to the African continent, and consequently one finds oneself drawn into his timeless realm of southern African icons of traditional life, depicted almost as Egyptian hieroglyphics.

McInnes, Jacki

McInnes, Jacki

McInnes obtained a BA (FA) (cum laude) from University of South Africa (UNISA) in 2001 and an MFA from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town in 2004. She received the UNISA Fine Arts Faculty medal in 2001 and won the ‘Mixed Media’ category prize in the M-Web New Signatures Competition in 2000.

Meyer, Denby

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Meyer, Denby

Denby Meyer’s work represents a personal view of the world that we live in, and the effect we have on it.

Meyer, John

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Meyer, John

John Meyer is one of South Africa’s leading contemporary realists. Born 1942, Meyer has put his indelible stamp on the genres of landscape, portraiture and narrative art.

Meyer, Walter

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Meyer, Walter

Walter Meyer is a painter and graphic artist of landscapes, portraits, still life, wildlife and abstract pictures. He works in oil, acrylic, watercolour, gouache, ink, wash, pencil, charcoal, various graphic media and also sculpts in wood.

Momberg, Anton

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Momberg, Anton

Anton Momberg has emerged as arguably South Africa’s finest realist in sculpture, focusing mainly on the female nude. His finely crafted work cast in marble dust and resin has an unearthly, unsettling quality that somehow makes a monolith of the contemporary female form, as distinct from the “Venus” of antiquity.

Mooney, James

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Mooney, James

Mooney has a sense of being at the centre of multiple streams of stylistic expression (abstract, surreal, historical, representational and various hybrids of the same) each of which somehow satisfy a part of him and yet if he delves into any one stream exclusively, as most painters do, he could spend a lifetime trying to perfect that to the exclusion of the others.

Mthethwa, Zwelethu

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Mthethwa, Zwelethu

Mthethwa´s paintings serve as visual songs, their lyrics narrating a story of how painting refers to itself while being fed by experiential nutrients.

Musgrave, Olivia

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Musgrave, Olivia

In artistic terms, Musgrave has been influenced by 20th Century Italian sculptors, including Marini, Martini, Greco and Manzu. Alongside her personal work, she has completed a number of portrait and public commissions in bronze. She is a member of both the Royal Society of British Sculptors and the Society of Portrait Sculptors.

Mzimba, Velaphi

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Mzimba, Velaphi

Mzimba´s huge faces, young boys with heads made out of squashed cans and complex mixed-media landscapes grace many public, corporate and private collections worldwide.

Ndlovu, Sipho

Ndlovu, Sipho

Born in Johannesburg in 1968, Sipho Ndlovu is passionate about his painting and dedicated to his work. With no opportunity for formal art training, his love and passion for art inspired him to become a self-taught artist.

Papetti, Alessandro

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Papetti, Alessandro

What is Italian about Papetti is his masterly self-effacement in confrontation with the subject matter. As a person he never gets in the way of what the artist is doing.

Pemba, George Mnyalaza Milwa

Pemba, George Mnyalaza Milwa

Pemba was born in 1912 in Hill´s Kraal, Korsten, Port Elizabeth. As a child he was encouraged by his father to draw and paint, and so began painting murals in the family house and producing portraits from photographs of his father´s employers.

PIERNEEF, JACOB HENDRIK

Pierneef, Jacob Hendrik

Jacob Hendrik Pierneef was born in Pretoria in 1886, the year that Johannesburg was founded. His father, Gerrit, a Hollander, built the first house in the new town, in Market Street, his mother was the daughter of a Trekker.

Redelinghuys, Albert

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Redelinghuys, Albert

His painting is a personal and spiritual experience encompassing life and love within the ancient traditions of Western Art. ´Love and Life´ or even ´Love Life´ is the embodiment of this, the fishes being an early symbol of life and blue signifying divine love.

Roberts, Kevin

Roberts, Kevin

Kevin Roberts was born in 1965 in Rustenburg, South Africa. His serene, balanced and carefully constructed paintings and sculptures have received widespread acclaim. Winner of several awards with his distinctive style of rhythmic patterns and recurring symbols, he is one of South Africa’s most admired artists.

Rodger, Neil

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Rodger, Neil

Rodger belongs with those individual realists who have, throughout the modern era, defied categorisation.

Scouller, Glen

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Scouller, Glen

It is as if his brush and palette reverberate on the same wavelength as sunshine itself.view work

Scrimgeour, Caryn

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Scrimgeour, Caryn

Her choice of imagery, while varied, steers towards the fragile and fragmented, with objects evoking nostalgia, solitude and alienation.

Sebidi, Mmakgabo Helen

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Sebidi, Mmakgabo Helen

Mmakgabo Mapula Helen Sebidi was born in 1943 in Marapyane (Skilpadfontein), in the Hammanskraal area of the Northern Transvaal.

Sekete, Paul

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Sekete, Paul

Sekete uses distortion, elongation, and disproportionate scale to describe the human form and combines these with well defined linear shapes.

Sekoto, Gerard

Sekoto, Gerard

Born in Botshabelo in the eastern Transvaal, Sekoto moved to the Middelsburg District when he was five. It is here he would spend his most formative years, as he would always nurture the memories of his rural childhood.

Serfontein, Henk

Serfontein, Henk

Henk Serfontein´s paintings have received widespread acclaim and he is one of South Africa´s most recognised contemporary artists. He holds a degree in Fine Art (cum laude) and has also studied at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris. He has lectured art at a tertiary level, adjudicated national art competitions and is an accomplished curator of exhibitions.

Seward, Brennan

Seward, Brennan

Brennan Seward is a Zimbabwean born artist specializing in illustrating African life through his drawings and paintings. Seward began his career painting wildlife. He believes that the wilderness is inherently more civil than any man-made civility.

Sibanda, Peter

Sibanda, Peter

Peter Sibanda’s artistic journey started 1987 when a local librarian took him to part-time free art classes at Johannesburg Art Gallery. Today he is a finalist in Johannesburg Art City Competition and his work has covered the country.

Sibiya, Lucky

Sibiya, Lucky

Born in Vryheid, South Africa in 1942, Lucky Sibiya (1942 - 1999) is internationally renowned for his abstract paintings and sculptural carvings.The artist´s fascination with the abstract began in his childhood, partly due to his presence at his father´s consultations as a Sangoma.

Skosana, Zondi

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Skosana, Zondi

Zondi Skosana (Born: 14th February 1975) is a young laureate artist who presents his whole raison d´etre with his masterly use of colours and his dramatic compositions. He portrays his culture, his rural background, his despair mirrored against an empty background, his childhood memories as well as his social consciousness. All his works are pervaded by dreamlike qualities.

Soggot, Thea

Soggot, Thea

Thea Soggot was born in Johannesburg. After completing her degree in Fine Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand, she worked in Graphic Design and later taught art privately.

Starcke, Helmut

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Starcke, Helmut

Helmut Starcke was born in 1935 in Offenbach, West Germany. Starcke completed his apprenticeship at the Werbekunst Publicity Studio, Frankfurt.

Steirn, Adrian

Steirn, Adrian

Adrian Steirn is one of the world’s leading wildlife photographers, celebrated for his unique ability to capture the profound grace and unsettling beauty of real Africa. His work over the last ten years has seen him receive significant acclaim as a fine art wildlife and portrait photographer.

Stern, Irma

Stern, Irma

An artist depicting figures, portraits, heads, landscapes, flowers, still lifes, harbour views, scenes of the Cape Malay Quarter, cityscapes, genre and casual subjects. Worked in many media including oil, tempera, watercolour, gouache, charcoal, ballpoint pen, conte, coloured inks and various graphic media.

Stone, Simon

Stone, Simon

Simon Stone was born in 1952, Lady Grey, Cape Province, RSA. In 1976, he completed his Advanced Diploma in Fine Art, at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT (with Distinction).

Strachan, Lisa

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Strachan, Lisa

Lisa specialises in rare indigenous plants and her work has been exhibited and collected in South Africa, the UK, USA, Europe, Ireland and Australia.

Stutzer, Rina

Stutzer, Rina

Talented young South African artist Rina Strutzer is exploring the medium of sculpture for her upcoming exhibition at The Everard Read Gallery Johannesburg, as well as exhibiting some of her fascinating and technically masterful paintings.

Taylor, Angus

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Taylor, Angus

Angus Taylor (born 1970) is known in South Africa and abroad for his powerful, often large, works of sculpture, characterised by outstanding craftsmanship.

Taylor, Nicola

Taylor, Nicola

“To paint is the most natural thing for me to do”. What drives Nicola Taylor to paint is the beauty that is in everyday occurrences, she aims to realise this beauty in her work as she feels it reaffirms our common experience of life.

Van den Berg, Shany

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Van den Berg, Shany

Van den Berg´s ethereal, sensitive oil paintings and artwork capture a mood reminiscent of contemporary mannerism and romanticism with a strong focus on womanhood.

Voigt, Harold

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Voigt, Harold

Harold Voigt was born in 1939 in Johannesburg. A painter of landscapes, abstract works and the human figure, Voigt concentrates on textural qualities, light and colour, derived from the African Landscape.

Voigt, Leigh

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Voigt, Leigh

Leigh Voigt was born in Johannesburg in 1943 and is the daughter of the botanical artist, Barbara Jeppe. She studied at the Johannesburg School of Art, but before deciding to devote her time to art Leigh worked for an advertising agency between 1962 and 1968.

Voigt, Walter

Voigt, Walter

Born in Johannesburg in 1971, Walter Voigt grew up on the Lowveld Escarpment near Nelspruit in Mpumalanga. He was educated at Uplands Primary School, St AlbansCollege and Lowveld High School. In 1992 he began a three-year course in Graphic Design at The Witwatersrand Technikon, majoring and specializing in illustration.

Wozniak, Florian

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Wozniak, Florian

Florian Wozniak studied sculpture, printmaking, drawing, painting, history of art, art criticism, German and religious studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. In 1986 he graduated with a BA Fine Art, majoring in sculpture.