Jimmy is a contemporary artist, painter, and sculptor from Cape Town, South Africa. He is specialised in portraiture, figurative work, nudes, and sculpting. As a child, he was always drawing. Throughout his teenage years and into adulthood, he continued to draw, illustrate, and make things. After completing his schooling, he studied graphic design. It wasn’t […]
David was born (1990) and raised in Bloemfontein. He completed his BA in Fine Arts at the University of The Free State in 2012. Since then, he has been a full-time artist and illustrator of picture books. In 2015, he moved to Cape Town, where he currently lives a free-lance life and exhibits regularly. He […]
Born in Cape Town, Jane loved drawing and painting from an early age. After completing matric with a distinction in art, she went abroad and travelled extensively for 2 years. After returning to South Africa, she started working as a fashion designer. This turned into a 25-year career as a designer and design manager. She […]
Bastiaan van Stenis was born in 1981 in South Africa. He is a descendant of the renowned 19th Century English painter John Thomas Baines. Primarily a self taught artist. His unique style reflects his passion for art and his diverse life experciences. In his own words, “What drives me is the proces, the creating, and […]
“The faster we move the less we see the details” “We see our lives in frames per second” Riaan takes inspiration from commonplace, ordinary ideas and likes to showcase his impression and apprehension of things around him, effectively capturing their context and value with a de-constructed eye. At first glance his work looks abstract and […]
I have found my niche in large and small scale portrait and figurative studies which I approach with attention to detail. I draw my inspiration from ‘ the stuff of life’, womanhood and the different facets of that identity, relationships, childhood, memories and cultural heritage. These themes are sensitively rendered into art that is relatable […]
Having never attended art school, Eben is a self-taught artist from Cape Town and only started his first realistic drawing in 2018. His raw talent for capturing light and texture in his charcoal drawings allows him to produce thought provoking works addressing the impact mankind has on the environment and reversely the environment on mankind. […]
Matthew Hindley ( born 1974 ) graduated from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town in 2002; where he was awarded the Michaelis Prize for the best final exhibition in his year. As one of the South Africa’s most recognised emerging painters, Hindley’s intense, poetic and delving artworks have featured in various critical and […]
Phulani was born in 1976 in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. She is a self-taught artist and has always expressed herself artistically through different mediums, whether it be drawing, painting, photography or clothing design. Phulani focusses on portraits. And the actual focus of it is trying to bring about emotion because she is emotionally driven. She puts a lot of focus on the eyes because […]
Janko de Beer grew up in Pretoria, South Africa. He obtained his National Senior Certificate from Pro Arte Alphen Park (1997), a reputed art school in Pretoria, where he was exposed to a range of art forms. In 2003, he obtained his Bachelor of Laws ( Legum Baccalaureus ) from the University of South-Africa. During […]
Mo Nique (in full ‘Monique Koning’) is a South African artist with Dutch parents. Mo Nique grew up in Port Elizabeth, South-Africa. From 1995 to 2012 she lived in the Netherlands where her 3 children were also born. and ended up in Wynberg (Cape Town) after having lived in the Netherlands for 17 years. As […]
Claude Chandler is a South African artist from Cape Town. He grew up in a family of artists in the city of Durban. Amidst the many galleries and often in the company of artists, he was meant to become an artist. Chandler studied fine arts at the University of Durban. His portraits are a technological […]
Kilmany-Jo Liversage (1973) is a South African artist. Liversage studied visual arts at the Central University of Technology in Bloemfontein. Her portrait paintings are a mixture of fine art and street art. Mixture of traditional painting and street art Kilmany-Jo gets her inspiration from street culture. She always starts from portraits from mass media and […]
Gavin Rain is an artist from Cape Town. He studied art and neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town. Gavin is a pointillist. He started with pointillism around 2003/2004. Gavin gave this neo-impressionist painting technique a very unique touch. With exhibitions in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Venice, Chicago and others … Gavin has indeed become a […]