Hardy Botha

Bobbie Burgers is a contemporary Canadian painter. Her lush and Expressionistic depictions of flowers teeter on the verge of abstraction, bursting with bright color and laden with thickly applied, textural paint. “Flowers, to me, are the opposite of still,” the artist has explained. “Changing from minute to minute, they are perfect symbols for life, death, yearning, and beauty. My brushstrokes are layered with my own internal charges, depicting anger, frustration, softness, wanting, and more.” Born in 1973 in Vancouver, Canada, she studied Art History at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. Her work has been exhibited widely at home and abroad, notably including Art Market San Francisco and Equinox Gallery. Today, her works are in the collections of the Berost Corporation in Toronto and the Royal Bank of Canada, among others. Burgers lives and works in Vancouver, Canada.

Hardy Botha

Born: 1947 Kroonstad, Orange Free State

A painter and graphic artist of figures, animals and carnival scenes. Works in oil, lithography and etching.

Studies: 1967 gained a Diploma in Fine Art from the Orange Free State Technical College.

Profile: A scenery designer for a circus where he also worked as a clown in 1972.
Exhibitions: He has participated in many group exhibitions in SA, at the Sao Paulo Bienale in Brazil and on exhibition in the USA and in West Germany; 1973 SAAA Gallery, Pretoria, first of several solo exhibitions held in SA; 1979 Cape Town Biennial.
Represented: National Museum, Bloemfontein; Pretoria Art Museum; SA National Gallery, Cape Town; University

of the Orange Free State; University of Stellenbosch.

Reference SA Panorama February 1976

Article credits to:

The Dictionary of South African Painters and Sculptors by Grania Ogilvie