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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.

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Born: 1917 Roodepoort, Transvaal

A painter of landscapes, seascapes and figures. Works in oil, acrylic, tempera and mixed mida.

Studies: c. 1944 Witwatersrand Technical

College under Maurice van Essche.

Profile: Lives in Florida, Transvaal

Exhibitions: He has participated in numerous group exhibitions from 1946; 1947 Bothner’s Gallery, Cape Town, first of numerous solo exhibitions held in SA; 1956, 1960 and 1964 Quadrennial Exhibitions; 1981 Republic Festival Exhibition.

Award: 1949 jointly with Johannes Meintjes, winner of Die Vaderland’s Award for the Most Original SA Work of Art.

Represented: Hester Rupert Art Museum,

Graaff-Reinet; Indianapolis Art Gallery, USA; National Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe; Pretoria Art Museum; Roodepoort City Council;

University of the Witwatersrand.

References: 20C SA Art; AASA; Artlook March 1967