Eric Bolsmann

I am a published author and painter in oils I am a writer and painter residing in Pretoria, South Africa. My website is www.ericbolsmann.co.za. As a writer, I enjoy researching subjects dealing primarily with history and art and wine and food. My recent books include Pretoria: Artists’ Impressions 1857–2001, Jacaranda – Pride of Pretoria, Hotel Boulevard – The Happy Hotel, The Pretoria Art Museum - The German Contribution, French Footrpints in South Africa, and Winston Churchill – The Making of a Hero in the South African War, and Who wants to be a starving artist anyway?. As a painter in oils, I am particularly fond of depicting buildings, city scapes, and street scenes. The visual language I apply with a vocabulary that is largely of our time has been described as a “new realism”, implying that my sense of composition and perspective on my environment is innovative as well as representative. Another love of mine is that of paintings floral studies “Being born a Gemini, I need both