Matsoso, Leonard

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.

Matsoso, Leonard

Born: c.1949 Soweto, Johannesburg.

An artist depicting mythological animals, tribal rituals, myths, African legends, abstracted figures and urban life. Has worked in ink, conté, mixed media and

in oil pastel.

Studies:1962-69 part time at the Jubilee Centre, Johannesburg, under Cecil Skotnes, Sydney Kumalo, Bill Hart and Ezrom Legae; 1972 part time at the Bill Ainslie Studio.

Profile: Large scale works from 1975. 1972 visited London, Paris and Rome, having won the UTA Pavement Art Competition Travel Prize.

Exhibitions: He has participated in group exhibitions from 1970 in SA, the USA,

West Germany, Australia and in Sao Paulo, Athens and London; 1971 Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, solo exhibitions; 1971 Building Design Centre, Preston UK, joint exhibition with Winston Saoli and Cyprian Shilakoe Maqhubela and Sydney Kumalo; 1979 Contemporary African Art in SA, touring; 981 Standard Bank, Soweto,

Black Art Today Exhibition; 1981

Republic Festival Exhibition 1985 Tributaries, touring SA and West Germany; 1988 Karen McKerron Gallery, Johannesburg, joint exhibition with Joe Maseko and Sheila Nowers

Award: 1973 Special Award for drawing,

Sao Paulo Bienale.

Represented: Johannesburg Art Gallery; Pretoria Art Museum; Sandton Municipal Collection; SA National Gallery, Cape Town; University of Fort Hare; University of South Africa; University of the Witwatersrand.