​Contemporary South African Art

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Marie Botha was born in South Africa. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Music from Stellenbosch University, majoring in piano. While teaching piano at the Teachers College in Stellenbosch, she attended some courses in drawing and working in oils. Pottery followed and she subsequently exhibited on a national level.

 

After much frustration with the quality of her paint work she took a two year course with Louise Goudemond, a South African artist in Sandton. During this time she started to sell her work and exhibited in groups.

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Marie’s style is impressionistic, sometimes expressionistic, depending on her inspiration. Her paintings are reflective of her love for nature and travel, varying from the awesome beauty of a Canadian mountain range to an old street corner in Amsterdam, to the fluent rhythm of a Namibian dune in the desert.

 

With two of her three children now living in BC, Canada, she spent three months there over Christmas, visiting several magnificent places. To Marie, nature evokes emotions of joy, passion, peace and awe. Her paintings are memories of special moments, like waking up on a November morning in Prince Rupert and seeing the whole world in a white blanket after the first snowfall of the season!

 

Marie’s works are in several corporate collections, as well as private collections in South Africa, the UK, USA, Australia, France and Switzerland.