(1914 - 2010)Post War“I paint because I cannot neglect to paint. The urge to create stems from the search for contact with humankind, with nature and with the Supreme Being. Artistic expression reflects what is true and authentic in life. Art is universal.” Bettie...

(1929 - 2001 )Post War“The unreasonable, the ridiculous and the absurd in everyday life became its most interesting ingredient, like the currants in a bun.” – Christo Coetzee. Christo Coetzee’s success in the international art world was a far cry from his humble...

(1922 - 2020)Post WarClaude Bouscharain’s canvases are pervaded by a provocative and vaguely disturbing atmosphere – a sense that the viewer is being provided with a view into rather than of the personages who inhabit the distorted space.  Her colour combinations...

(1886 - 1964 ) Post WarDorothy Elvery was born at Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland, in 1886. At the age of 14 she began studying figure painting at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art and the Royal Hibernian Academy School, and later in Paris. Her work was...

(1915 - 2011)Contemporary Edoardo Villa (1915-2011) is often called Johannesburg’s ‘unofficial official’ sculptor. Anecdotally, he has contributed the most public sculptures of any single artist in the city where he spent the majority of his life, and certainly the...

(1914 - 2007)Post WarEsmonde-White was born 1914 in Dundee, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa. Not much is known about her upbringing, but she did experience formal training in the arts, starting from 1932, when she enrolled at the University of Natal. Here she was taught...

(1927 - 2013 )Post War Born in Tulbagh in the Western Cape, Erik Laubscher aspired to a life as an artist from a young age. However, these ambitions were hindered by several financial constraints in his early life, but ultimately his creative fervor and driving...

(1909 - 2005)Post War“I am very particular about my paintings and would like them to last. It is pleasing to think that what you have made today and what is regarded now as a good painting, and which pleases and stimulates people today, will still do the same a...

(1900 - 1951)Post WarJohn Dronsfield was born in Lancashire and, although he studied briefly at the Manchester School of Art, was mainly self-taught.  From 1923 until 1939 he worked in advertising and theatre design in London, continuing with stage-set design on his...

(1923 - 2012 )Post WarThe paintings of Paul Jenkins have come to represent the spirit, vitality, and invention of post-World War II American abstraction. Employing an unorthodox approach to paint application, Jenkins is as much identified with the process of...

(1929 - 2014)Post War“The child in me has accompanied the adult that I am into old age. So, as far as I am concerned, it is essential to be honest and to be irreverent at times and to have a sense of humour as well.” Peter Clarke Born in Simonstown 1929, Peter Clarke...

(1920 - 2010)Post War“For me, it is very simple. The act of painting at a particular moment is able, for reasons I neither understand, nor even try to understand, to open up the whole world of my experience, my thinking, my aspirations.” Robert Hodgins London-born...

(1924 - 2012 )Post War“My aim is to communicate with everybody, not selectively. I feel that art, literature, music, and painting provide spiritual support. They should move the spirit and make us aware, and in that way I intend my paintings to make statements… I...

(1923 - 2020 )The Athlete Shawzin (1920-2021, South African) was a prolific sculptor known for the variety of materials she worked in, including wood, bronze, metal and marble, the latter of which she often acquired from the famous quarries at Carrara. Working from...

(1906 - 1982 )Post War“Some look upon my art as a fun thing, but the fun is only the surface of something very much deeper…I’ll leave it to the future to discover that it’s much more than that.” Walter Battiss. Battiss’ long career as an artist has been devoted to the...