Thackwray, James

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.

Thackwray, James

Born: 1919, Dordrecht, Eastern Cape.
Died: 1994

A painter of figures, landscapes, seascapes, portraits, still life, genre and abstract pictures. Works in oil, acrylic, watercolour and charcoal.

A graphic artist producing monotypes. Known for his paintings of rural people of the Cape in their environment.

Studies :
1937 extra-murally at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, under Professor Edward Roworth and Melvin Summers; studied life drawing under Maurice Van Essche and Alfred Krenz.

Profile :
A member of the South African Arts Association, works as an art director

for a textile screenprinting company.
Exhibitions :

1948 : Ashbey Galleries, Cape Town, first of 10 solo exhibitions held in SA. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions since 1952 in SA.

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