Timlin, William RIBA

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.

Timlin, William RIBA

Born: 1893 Ashington, Northumberland, England
Died: 1943 Kimberley, Cape Province
Resided in SA from 1912

An artist who worked in oil, ink, wash, watercolour and pastel. An etcher. His best known works are his watercolour fantasies filled with fairytale like figures; also painted landscapes.

Studies: Armstrong College of Art, Newcastle, England; architecture and art in Kimberley.

Profile: 1914 founded the art section of the Athenaeum Club, Kimberley; 1932 a founder member of the National Academy of Fine Arts (SA); a member of the SA Society of Artists and the SA Institute of Artists. A licentiate of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Designed the first cover for The Outspan magazine and provided a number of its illustrations; also designed seals, theatre programmes and sets. Illustrated numerous books including Out of the Crucible by Hedley Chilvers as well as Kees van Die Kalahari and others by G C & S B Hobson. An architect in partnership with Greatbatch in Kimberley. 1936 and 1939 visited Java, via Zanzibar.

Exhibitions: Participated in group exhibitions in SA and the USA; 1914 first of several solo exhibitions held in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Kimberley; 1964 William Humphreys, Art Gallery, Kimberley, Memorial Exhibition; 1966 Pieter Wenning Gallery, Johannesburg, posthumous exhibition; 1977 William Humphreys Art Gallery, Kimberley, Memorial Exhibition.

Represented: Albany Museum, Grahamstown; Durban Art Gallery; Johannesburg Art Gallery; King George VI Art Gallery, Port Elizabeth; National Museum, Bloemfontein; Pretoria Art Museum; William Humphreys Art Gallery, Kimberley.

Public Commission: 1933 Auditorium of the Johannesburg Colosseum Theatre (demolished).

Publications by Timlin: The Ship that Sailed to Mars, 1923, George G Harrap & Company, London (a film of this book was made in the USA); South Africa, a series of pencil sketches by William Timlin, introduction by G E Chittenden, 1927, A & C Black, London; The Building of a Fairy City, unfinished.

References: Collectors’ Guide; SAA; Afr Repos; SESA; BSAK 1 (under M Timlin) & 2; Enc S’n A; 3Cs; AASA.

Seagulls at Dusk

Pastel Signed 54 x 36 cm