South African Art Life August 2010

ARTLife THE SOUTH AFRICAN

Supplement to The SA Art Times August 2010

The Art of our lifetime

Artist Lionel Davis

Kalk Bay: an artist’s paradise on earth photographic essay by Jenny Altschuler

The Kalk Bay Culture Mile lies on the cusp of the Kalk Bay harbour, fishing-trawler pier and fish market, separated by the booms of the Railway line connecting it to all the points along the route from Simonstown through to central Cape Town. The combination of qualities of European Riviera, classic South African fishing centre, the coastal light and colours creates a unique atmosphere which attracts art lovers to set up Art galleries, fine craft showrooms and performing venues.

On any day one may enter the beguiling faรงade of commercial galleries and restaurants servicing tourists and craft purchasers, but once you scent the trail, you will come across more and more artists and fine crafters who have set up their studios and are working dedicatedly in this inspiring context.

All Photographs and Text by Jenny Altschuler

(Top) Every journey to Kalk Bay uncovers a new palette of colours. Each particular weather, time of day, and different season affects the nuances of each colour.

At times winter afternoons filter in sultry greys and blues on wet days. In this light one may remember some clarity of detail and social conscience.

(Below) The Camelride : On the way to Ocean View from Fishhoek, one must traverse the No-Man’s territory created by these dislocated camels and their Nigerian caddies. My mind traverses the Arabias, the middle East and then suddenly I am back in the post colonial South Africa.

(Top) Wayne and Lynne live in Muizenberg, they often spend lunch hour in Kalk Bay Harbour.

(Below) View from Cathy’s Studio, The False Bay light has inspired many an artist, poet and writer including Molly Townsend and Terence McCaw.

(Top) Kalk Bay Modern: Cheryl Rumbak, gallery owner and curator, aims to showcase local and national fine artists in curated exhibitions, maintain a commercial profile, as well as engage in socially responsible national and international projects. The Gallery sits on top of the famous Olympia Cafe. Above all of this, on the 2nd floor, Chris Bladen, artist sculptor is busy moving in to set up his studio. (Below left) The Olympia Cafe (Below right) Kalk Bay Modern interior

(Top) Kalk Bay Gallery is one of a group of 8 galleries that run under Fine Art Portfolio. Dena Koehorst, the manageress, also owns the ice cream parlour down the road.

The gallery showcases Cape and National viable art. Kalk Bay painters, David Bucklow and ex Zimbabwean Kudakwashe Gavi are among the top sellers.

(Middle) : Fishermen: Toyer Cozyn with his crew The Cozyn family is one of the old fishing families in SA. (Middle right) View from the Kalk Bay harbour.

(Below left) Descending down Boyes Drive into Kalk Bay. (Below right) Houses on the bend: Approaching Kalk Bay from Simonstown holds a pleasant surprise at the final corner around the bend.

(Top) Cathy Layzell and Hardlife at the Olympia Bakery (Below) Theresa Jo and her husband CP Wessels iron work at Artvark Gallery

Olympia CafÊ and Deli : Although Olympia’s restaurant is unpretentious with wooden tables and simple furniture, its ambiance of Greek island with kitchen inside the dining space and wonkily hung paintings and photographs by local artists give it its unaffected yet charming character. Put your name on the board and you will get a table as soon as your name is at the top of the list.

(Top left) Katherine at her studio window : Katherine Glenday blows on the leaves at the window. The vibrations caused by her breath excite her as well as the light coming in to the studio at The Forge. She professes to actively include light and sound in her ceramic pieces. Her projects present different resonances transparencies through which light and sound can be held, transmit, resound and be heard, as well as be seen and imagined. Both light and sound are abstract waves that ebb and flow into the world. To make these visible seems to be her mission.

(Middle left) Pot instruments : Seven years ago Katherine became aware that the various sizes, shapes and dimensions of the pots made particular sounds, notes on the octaves. She developed this potential and has performed with her pot instruments for almost as many years in different parts of the world and in different environments, from desert lansdcapes, to city galleries. “I work with porcelain because it is my way of transforming all that feels insufferable in life. It is a way of catching ‘the light’ which shines every day – on good and bad. Inhabiting the poetic and imaginal realm and making this visible requires active ‘dreaming’, It is my role and holds my prayer for life.” Katherine Glenday.

(Bottem right) Charles Fauville attends Katherine Glenday’s weekly Friday potter’s classes her studio The Forge. Katherine says that he is not her pupil. They studied sculpture briefly at University in the Eastern Cape at the same time in their late teens. Charles has recently retired from his long time position as instructor in sculpture and general art production at the famous Frank Joubert Art Centre in Newlands. The studio sessions are also open to those who just need space and atmosphere to work.

(Bottem right) Seni Senevirane lives in Kalk Bay and attends the Friday potter’s session at the Forge. A psychotherapist by profession, Seni is sensitive to the personal yet public story, accessing human emotion and psychological frquencies with poetry and acappella in her performance art, in order to move and affect the world. Here Seni gives a taste of whats to come on Saturday night at her upcoming performance at The Forge, that will include work from her new collection in progress.

(Above) Friday after the weekly ceramic class : I say, “Take a minute. Relax.” Katherine Glenday has been fussing over the mess in her studio and her lack of preparation for me, the photographer and her sick daughter upstairs in the awesome house with THE view. Katherine seems to need to be organized and then to hide the organization process away and be left with the perfect facade, the divine product. I can’t fathom what she is talking about? To me it’s more ordered than any studio I have used. On a daily basis The Forge is tidied away, almost excavated...no trace that it was used; but in this way, the next performer, workshop co-ordinator or musician can arrive and set up in a perfect, clean space.

(Top left) : Nic through the tube: Half the work is to construct the tools with which to cast the various pieces that make up each artwork. Many containers and vessels cannot be bought and Nick spends half the time dedicated to creating these himslef in order to complete the final products. Smoothing down all sides and being exact is very inportant. Here nick checks to see that the inside of this casting vessel is smooth all round.

(Middle left) : Emily Banda places singlly cast small parts in appropriate positions. This delicate mission requires great patience, precision and visual sensibility in order to achieve authenticity yet artistic composition. She has learned all she knows from Nick, and being a fast learner, she mimics his style becoming an extension of his artistic realm. She and her husband Gilbert are about to begin building their first home in Malawi from the money they earn assisting in this capacity. Gilbert works in a similar portfolio for Nick’s sculptor brother, Chris, in his studio in Kalk Bay. (Middle right) : Chris and Gilly with Eliphant : Gilbert assists Chris on all his sculptures. Their relationship is strong and Chris admits that he will find it a strain without Gilly over the months he is away back home in Malawi taking time to build his new home for Emily, the baby and himself. Gilly makes small cast animals himself mimicking the technique that Chris’s dad in his craft tourist business, as they were growing up. Nick and Chris both studied dentist mould construction and use the techniques they learned to create their nature orientated sculptures.

(Bottom left) Protea before casting: Pouring the molten liquid material onto the flower and allowing it to seep in to all the cracks and nooks creates a perfect negative shape.

The plant disappears to ashes from heat inside eventually and only the mould with its hole remains. Many of these vessels, created by Nick for this purpose, are the only ones of their kind in the world.

Jane and Bruno in the studio etching : Recently Jane Eppel set up a system which allows her to process her etchings at home. Like Nick (Her partner) her work is finely detailed, but unlike Nic, she needs no-one and can work for days on her own, surfacing with finished pieces. Today she prides a pile of 10 prints from each etching plate (of editions of 20) in neatly wrapped packages for delivery to various clients and galleries who already await them. “You can’t rub anything out” she warns, “Every stroke is permanent”. Bruno is her subject for this image which will be one of a series under a possible title of “Let Sleeping dogs lie.” Jane’s studio runs into the courtyard where Nic Bladen and Emily Banda are extracting their moulds.

Jane Eppel and her mom, Lynn Eppel are very close. Today they discuss a collaboration which will combine their talents and techniques on an upcoming show. Jane is considering Lynn threading or sewing in some way into 2 D pieces in order to extend the layers of dimension of a body of work for submission. Jane’s pieces often push the boundaries of convention of format of the medium. Her canvases are often constructed before she begins with 3 dimensional enclaves causing the opposite effect of ‘relief’. Her new etching plate has been cut to an uneven circular shape.

(Top left) Painter, Cathy Layzell in her Blue Room stacked with paintings created over the past year or two. A really dedicated and prolific artist, Cathy arrives at her studio high up on hill, most days, even on weekends. Light and colours are most important to her, and the window views of the mountain on the one side and the harbour and sea on the other are a constant source of inspiration. Having studied painting at Rhodes and completed an informal ‘finishing era’ through England and Europe over 8 years, escapading on and off with painting in the south of France, Cathy veered towards Kalk Bay for its light and atmospheric artist’s hub. Her love affair with this small harbour town is so passionate that it causes her boyfriend to be jealous. She is busy on an order of 6 small canvases for an exhibition in Johannesburg.

(Top) Cathy Layzell’s Studio: The light in her studio comes from a window on each side of the room. When the light ceases climb the hill, Cathy packs up and heads home to Hout Bay. She leaves her still lifes up to continue to paint tomorrow.

Tuesday mornings life drawing sessions are open to artists from all over. Today’s group includes an English artist in Cape Town for 2 months, as well as students passing through in their winter holiday. A large number of dedicated artists live in the surrounding areas, but the group ebbs and fills with others who journey weekly from Newlands, Observatory and Central Cape Town. If you arrive early enough you will access an easel, a board, pegs, clips, chairs and tables. The group has been in existence for many years and has even exhibited their work in a group show. The models change weekly and return often. Andi really inspires the group, his quiet energy maintaining the poses from 2 minutes to 15 minutes or half an hour with ease.

(Top) Lionel Davis is an awesome character, positive, jovial and dedicated to cultural involvement. In between his serious poses, he roared with laughter trying on his various hats that he has collected over the years to enhance his mood for painting. Over the past many years. Lionel has travel to many art and political centres of the world, invited to talk about his experiences during and post Apartheid. It is through these working opportunities that he has been able to set himself up comfortably in Muizenberg, he says. Lionel in his studio with one of his “Coloured Man” self portraits. Having been incarcerated on Robben Island, under house arrest during the apartheid era and later choosing to live and work on the island after it became a heritage site, Lionel professes to be an escapist in his work. “I do not deal with pain” he admits. (Below) Lionel and Peter Clarke are close friends. Lionel, his wife and Peter often sojourn over weekend into central Cape Town where they do exhibition hopping and other cultural activities. Peter Clarke is a well known and prolific visual artist, having succeeded is surviving solely through the sale of his artworks and artistic application. He and Lionel discuss Lionel’s artworks presented for the Irma Stern show.

(Top) George of Quagga Trading views his treasure trove of books and collectibles, (Below middle) (Below) A schoolgirl, looking out from Quagga Trading, George the security guard at Quagga makes sure everything is fine, Jane Eppel with Bruno greeting me, The railway house. Roy Roach from Fishhoek in the big mirror

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(Top) The Potters shop and adjacent park (Below) School girl, Dog walker, at the Labia Museum - Muizenburg, Plumber and avid runner doing his excercise.

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CELEBRATING CONRAD THEYS’ 70TH BIRTHDAY Together with the launch of his book and exhibition

THE ART OF CONRAD THEYS – SOUL OF THE LAND Conrad Theys’ 70th birthday will be celebrated on 8th September with the opening of a retrospective of this celebrated artists’ work at the Sasol Art Museum in Stellenbosch, held in conjunction with the Stellenbosch Art Gallery. The exhibition, to be opened by Prof.

Russell Botman, coincides with the launch of the richly illustrated book, The Art of Conrad Theys – Soul of the Land, written

by Prof Alexander Duffey and compiled by Meyer Grobbelaar.

Seventy leather-bound Collector’s edition volumes, as well as the standard edition, will also be presented at this occasion where books will be signed by the artist.

Apart from the book launch and retrospective, an exhibition of selected works will be available for sale from the 9th of September at the Stellenbosch Art Gallery.

Theys was born in the town of Montagu on the 9th of September 1940 and he describes himself as a child of nature, recalling with fondness the days of his youth spent wandering the veldt, studying and collecting the stones found in the landscapes of the Klein Karroo and later Namaqualand.

Trained as a teacher, his instruction in the arts commenced in 1969 when he sought guidance from artist Gregoire Boonzaier, under whose mentorship he worked until 1972.

In 1974 Theys embarked on a full-time artistic career, and augmented his studies under Edwine Simon at the Ruth Prowse School of Art in Cape Town between 1981 and 1982. Described as one of the last ‘Cape Impressionists’, Theys became the youngest of an inuential circle of Cape

artists composed of Boonzaier, Alexander Rose-Innes, Dawid Botha and Marjorie Wallace amongst others.

This retrospective exhibition will feature works in oil, pastel, watercolour and some early drawings, providing a comprehensive overview of Theys’ oeuvre, which includes still-lives, landscapes and depictions of Western Cape mission stations, rural as well as urban dwellings.

Renowned for his studies of quiver trees set within arid rock formations, his works obtain their honest strength from an intimate knowledge of the land’s textures, moods and rhythms. A distinctive sinuous linearity and sensitive application of colour mark his oil and pastel still-lives. From the mid-1970s, Theys has documented the neighbour hoods, homes and lives from those Cape communities marginalized by segregationist policies and his paintings of District Six, Crossroads and Philippi capture both the vulnerability and vitality of these areas.

Throughout his career Theys was involved in various initiatives dedicated to arts education and for ve years held the position of president of the South African National Association for the Visual Arts. From 1995 to 2003, he was co-ordinator and adjudicator of the prestigious ABSA Bank Atelier Competition.

In 2004 the University of South Africa awarded him with an honorary doctorate for his contribution to the arts and this year he was awarded a Medal of Honour for the Visual Arts by the South African Academy of Science and Arts. His work can be found in major South African collections, including the SABC, SA Reserve Bank, Rand Merchant Bank and the ABSA Art Collections.

OPENING

Wednesday, 8 September 18:30 for 19:00

THE SASOL ART GALLERY 52 Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch Tel: (021) 808 3691

EXHIBITION

Thursday, 9 – 26 September

STELLENBOSCH ART GALLERY

34 Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch Tel/Fax: (021) 887 8343 www.stellenboschartgallery.co.za

mba Girl on crystal base

Heather Auer

Art & Sculpture Gallery

We are a family run business. In the photo are my wo sons, Uwe and Michael, my husband, Manfred nd myself.

We have been running the gallery in Simon’s Town or over eleven years now and I have been painting nd sculpting on a professional basis for about thirty ears.

ove South Africa although I was born in Scotland nd emigrated here with my family at eight years of

age.

I love the fact that we can all work together at making the gallery a success. Michael does the framing and looks after the Hout Bay gallery and Uwe and Manfred run the Simon’s Town one.

The theme running through most of the work is African as I am passionate about South Africa and consider this my home.

www.heatherauer.co.za Quayside Centre, Wharf Street, Simon’s Town 7975 Tel: 021 786 1309 Shop 3, Red Sails, 22 Main Rd, Hout Bay 7806 Tel: 021 790 0947

Township Soccer Player

Girl with Dove

Male Torso

African Sister

Maureen Quin Sculpture is my passion. It’s an extension of me, reflecting my thoughts, my loves, my hates, joys and fears. Whether I am involved in representational wildlife studies, realistic figure studies, portraits or abstractions, I put my heart and soul into it.

Each sculpture is an exciting journey. Starting with a vague concept, sketching, where I compose shapes, forms and the spaces between these, on paper and in my mind. I draw until I get under the skin of my subject, until I can “feel” that sculpture in me. After constructing the armature, I concentrate on the shapes and forms in space, the composition and silhouette. Suddenly the work takes on a life of its own, the emotional content starts to manifest, the dialogue begins between myself and the sculpture. This dialogue is essential; it’s a tremendous stage of discovery, an adventure into my own inner self. While I work I’m constantly looking at the composition in space, the tensions within the individual forms and the relationships between them. To me this is the essence of sculpture. In the process I use my experience and my gut feelings to guide me until I’m satisfied within myself that the sculptural form I’ve created moves in space and is in harmony with my vision.

Mother Love, 2009

In my career as a sculptor I’ve used the figure extensively. In many of my studies I endeavour to capture the rapport between man and animal by combining the two to create sculptures that are uniquely my own abstract expressive approach.

This interdependence is illustrated in my most recent work, “Culprit” where I express my revulsion for the senseless destruction of the rhinoceros for the manufacture of aphrodisiacs for male gratification, male dominance through sex and the resultant effects on future generations.

My sculptures are sculptures first and foremost, the result of deep emotional responses to the world around me. Creating and searching for the ultimate realisation of my vision is the fulfilment of my life.

In an academic paper by Dr Agurtxane Urraca, published in Goya, Revista De Arte, Madrid 2001, my work was aptly described as follows; “Her work constitutes without a doubt a solid investigation of the form and the spirit of man. Figures which often appear to be deprived of volume succeed in scanning the horizons of time. She succeeds in fusing the abstract and figurative world of Henry Moore, the surrealism of Giacometti and the world of Africa, all mixed with the most intimate essence of the artist herself.”

Mandela Portrait: Commission for Mandela Hall Rhodes University Grahamstown, 2004

Charlotte, 2010

Revelation: Part of the Interaction Series, 2003

Culprit June, 2010

Jade, 2007

The Kill, 1996: Part of the Hunt Series

The Ultimate Sacrifice, 1999: Part of the Hunt Series

IZIDRO DUARTE AFRICAN NARRATIVES Izidro Duarte’s childhood years living in the outskirts of Lourenco Marques in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s left an indelible impression. For a young pupil of the Sao José de Lhanguene Mission School the surrounding village life of the Shangaan people became firmly and visually imprinted – imagery of people living close to nature.

Izidro Duarte’s subsequent move to South Africa in 1952 has not dimmed his love for Africa, it has dominated his subject matter throughout his professional career.

Duarte’s work has over time undergone many exploratory changes in technique and idiom but the depiction of the human figure has always remained constant. Exploring fresh methods of expression keeps him from stagnation – his two and three dimensional sculptures are a reflection of this.

Duarte’s reclusive nature and his aversion to city life has left his work underexposed, but there is no extracting him out of trying to capture an Africa that is rapidly changing gear into world assimilation.

Izidro Duarte was born in Ortiga / Portugal. He arrived in South Africa in 1953. He studied art at the Witwatersrand Technical College in Johannesburg from 1959-1961, under the tutelage of Professor Robert Bain, Phil Botha, George Boys, Joyce Leonard, Phil Kolbe and Anna Vorster.

In 1962 and 1963 he worked as a free-lance illustrator before travelling to the UK and Europe in 1964 for three years to further his own art studies. He returned to South Africa, embarking on his present art career in 1970.

Duarte has had solo exhibitions in Johannesburg, Durban, Lisbon, Birmingham, Amsterdam, Sydney, Bern and Gaborone. His work is represented in Johannesburg and Durban’s CCMA Government Offices, Springs Municipality, S.A. Chamber of Mines, University of Botswana, Reserve Bank of Botswana and the Margate Art Museum.

izidroduarte@gmail.com

African head, bronze 50 x 40 x 30 cms

Tel: 039 319 2725

Scapegoat Mkambati, watercolour 86 x 86 cms

Elandman Therianthrope Sculpure, Bronze 72 x 28 x 30 cms

Mussel Pickers, watercolour 80 x 57 cms

Waiting for the city bus, watercolour 80 x 57 cms

Therianthropes, oil and corrugated board on canvas 100 x 200 cms

Silent Witness, watercolour 80 x 57 cms

San dancers at Ghanzi, watercolour 150 x 100 cms

DENISE FIELDING Denise Fielding is resident at Bonza Bay in the Eastern Cape.

She is self taught through exposure to art publications, galleries and exhibitions in Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Ireland and South Africa. She has lived in London, Vancouver, Nassau Bahamas and Durban before returning to her much loved Eastern Cape where her family has been for generations.

Subsequently she spent time in Cape Town and later further travel.

Most recently Denise stayed in Ireland for four years and again began to paint. Her work was sold at a Gallery in County Sligo.

Early oils, water colours and mixed media of the 1980’s and 1990’s sold in the Eastern Cape through two Port Elizabeth Galleries and photograph by Marlene Neumann a Queenstown and East London Art Exhibition. She has small paintings in private collections in London.

Years spent studying the beauty of reflected light inspires her to attempt to express this on canvas and paper. Denise says that she tries to leave shape to find its own space. She does not drive herself to paint but enjoys the relaxed unfolding of self that happens in the process.

Garden Chair

Waves after Storm, Bonza Bay Beach

Cell 079 031 6851

email: udebeza@telkomsa.net

Mother and Child on Scarlet Sofa

Travel Sketch Vaucluse

Secretary Bird

Elsie, a Gqunukhwebe Woman, Buffalo River

Shells Bonza Bay

Travel Sketch, Marseille Old Harbour

Hibiscus and Arum

ARIE THERON

he real West Coast MARIE THERON received her training at Pretoria Normal College, at UNISA and with private tutors.

Her interest and growth during her career could best be seen in three phases:

A Malmesbury house

THE WATERCOLOUR YEARS: Her first love was watercolours and she spent most of the eighties and nineties exhibiting and demonstrating the medium, designing stationery and doing book and botanical illustration. Lecturing at Bellville Art Centre, Constantia and the Western Cape countryside, hundreds of students benefitted from her watercolour courses.

MIDDLE PERIOD: A hectic period filled with large colourful acrylics and oil paintings followed. At a 2002 solo exhibition in Budapest her works were snapped up by amongst others, the South African and Canadian embassies. It was followed by several local exhibitions and the 2004 sell-out solo exhibition “The Timeless Charm of Croatia� which opened in The Old Cape Town House, then moved

Anybody home?

Early morning in Piketberg

After the rain

Contact details: E-mail: m.theron@wam.co.za • Tel : 022 492 3482 • http://artistmarietheron.blogspot.com/

to Sandton Art Gallery and The Croatian Embassy in Pretoria. It also led to commissions from the Croatian First Secretary for his new Embassy post in Toronto. In 2005 The Association of Arts, Pretoria, commissioned paintings from 20 artists throughout Africa for a world touring exhibition “The Challenge of the Cravat” with the emphasis on Croatia as historical home of the tie. Marie’s painting “Sister Power” for the exhibition which showed at Eduardo Villa Gallery and Gordart Gallery and also toured to Brussels, Prague and Brazilia now hangs in the permanent collection of Academia Cravatica in Zagreb.

THE REAL WEST COAST: A profound change took place when Marie settled at the seaside on the lovely West Coast. She contends that socalled “West Coast Art” is commonly associated with stagnant little make-believe scenes of boats and cottages and lacks in sincerity of the real environment. It is Marie’s most passionate ambition to put this perception right. She visits and paints images throughout the West Coast region, then post the paintings and records interesting historical events of the West Coast on her very popular and widely read blog, ARTIST MARIE THERON CHRONICLES THE WEST COAST OF SOUTH AFRICA. (http://artistmarietheron.blogspot.com/) All the images used in this profile are from this blog.

Buoy, Oh Buoy!

Tweede Nuwejaar

Bokkoms at Velddrif

Proteas

Ernst de Jong Academy of Fine Art

Professional Painting and Specialized Graphic Design MISSION Our quest is for aesthetic excellence.

“Art is Anything done essentially to Achieve Beauty” Ernst de Jong 1960 “While Creative Visual Art may achieve and express many ideas and concepts, ideologies, symbols, rituals and religions. Propaganda, advertisting, sensationalism, information and messages, decoration and a variety of other human expressions and stories, it must achieve one goal:- BEAUTY. Once the propaganda has been forgotten, such as with the Russian Poster, the only thing that remains is the Beauty – the Fine Art. The Egyptian Messages are generally obscure but the Beauty, the Art remains.

Artists’ may say what they like and tell stories, but without aesthetic logic the message is short lived and no Art remains.

Great Art is always beautiful. There are no ugly paintings in the great Art Museums of the world. Style and fashion will only reflect the mood of the era briefly but inevitably there is no progress in Art. Art is eternal.”

Ernst de Jong 2010

Bijou Moynot, ‘Nuances Brunes’ 2009

Jan van Schalkwyk, ‘Shadows’ 2010

Esther Booysen, ‘Gateway to Unknown’ 2010

Carol van Tonder, ‘Rejuvenation’ 2010

Rachel Wickwar, Odyssey Series ‘The Arrival’ 2010

AN ART LEGEND – Ernst de Jong

American Trained. BFA Oklahoma Univ. USA Lecturer: Pretoria Univ, Pretoria Tech. School of New Vision NYC. Oslo Academy.

The Academy of Fine Art. 50 Solo shows and as many group exhibitions.

Retrospective Exhibition, Pretoria Art Museum 1998 Solo show Pretoria Art Museum 2000.

Collections worldwide. 30 Murals.

Painting for new shows in SA and USA

Ernst de Jong, ‘It’s a Marvellous night for a Moon dance’ 2010

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