Adriaan Boshoff was one of the great impressionists painters of our time. He was a reclusive man, an artist who was only really happy in his studio surrounded by paint and canvass. But, if any art can be termed an investment, Boshoff’s work comes the closest.
James Harris uses styles varying from the impressionist to the formal and structured to bring to the canvass the nuance of his subject, the unseen ambience of it.
While Influenced by the likes of Edgar de Gas and Gustav Courbet, Harris is reluctant to consign his work to any specific genre or style, describing it, in stead, as ‘vaguely impressionist’.
Branko’s art is a rarely concordant blend of colours that ring with the vibrancy and a peculiarly individualistic interpretation of a semi-abstract realism, the whole of which is eye-catchingly effective.
Tienie Pritchard's work embodies the best tradition of comparatively small-scale Renaissance sculpture for they display a love of virtuosity allied to the study of nature in the nascent technology of bronze casting. Some of Pritchard’s casts form an object lesson in what fine bronzes should be: an impeccable surface, rich brown patina and chasing and hammering almost too perfect to have been wrought by the human hand.
Born Johannesburg 1950. After a Graphic Design course in Johannesburg, Gavin Calf made his home in Cape Town where he worked in graphics before turning to full time painting. From 1984 he took classes with Ryno Swart at Ruth Prowes Art School and then moved to Artist’s Co-op in Observatory in 1989. Gavin now works from his studio in Rondebosch. Subjects include figurative, still life, portraiture, land-scapes and cafè life scenes.
Zerk was born in 1958 in Welkom in the Free State. After matriculating at Welkom Goudveld High School he studied Fine Arts at the Univercity of the Orange Free State under Leon Bliquy. He favours acrylic, oil and various graphic media to portray the richness of colour and texture and the luminous play of light that have been his trademark over the years.
