​Contemporary South African Art

Born: 1930 Johannesburg

A painter of abstract pictures, seascapes, landscapes and plant forms.  Works in oil.  Creates assemblages. 1968-75 an experimental phase, involving the graphic and photographic processes, music and astral imagery.  1972-75 Cosmos series of semi-abstract flower paintings; 1985 Mask series. 

Studies: 1949-53 Witwatersrand Technical College, where attained a National Art Teachers Certificate.
Profile: 1954-57 lectured at Pretoria Art Centre; 1958-63 a lecturer at the Witwatersrand Technical College; 1963 Vice Principal of the Johannesburg Art School; 1966-70 founded and taught at The Visual Arts Research Centre, Johannesburg.  Teaches art privately.  1977 created a 12 part audio visual correspondence course on painting.  Has studios in Zurich, Majorca, Spain, Johannesburg and at Salt Rock in Natal.
Exhibitions: He has participated in numerous group exhibitions held throughout SA and in Zurich, Seoul, Lisbon and Sao Paulo; 1962 Egon Guenther Gallery, Johannesburg, first of many solo exhibitions, a few of which have been held in SA, but most of them from 1975 in Zurich and latterly in the USA; 1967 Durban

Art Gallery, solo exhibition; 1969 organised the first

art happening in Johannesburg. 
Represented: Durban Art Gallery; Hester Rupert Art Museum, Graaff-Reinet; Johannesburg Art Gallery; National Gallery, Victoria, Australia; Potchefstroom Museum; Potchefstroom University for CHE; Pretoria

Art Museum; Rand Afrikaans University; Sandton Municipal Collection; SA National Gallery, Cape Town; University of the Witwatersrand.
Public Commissions: 1972 stainless steel environment, vestibule, Esselen Towers, Johannesburg; 24 panels

for a building façade in Pretoria; mural, SA Railways Recreation Club; 1981 mural assemblage, the State Theatre, Pretoria.
References SAA; 20C SA Art; SAP & S; SSAP; BSAK 1 & 2; Our Art 3; Oxford Companion t0 20C Art (under SA); 3Cs; AASA; LSAA; Artlook July 1968, September 1968 & September 1970; Habitat no 24, 1977; SA Panorama January 1984.



Article credits to:

The Dictionary of South African Painters and Sculptors by Grania Ogilvie