Category: Art

  • Local Hermanus Artist Claudie Lemoine

    Local Hermanus Artist Claudie Lemoine

    Like many thousands of other French people, my mom’s family and my dad responded to the National French Call during WW1 to help with the rebuilding of Morocco for the King of the day. After this period of hardship, I was born in Casablanca and followed my parents example in drawing and painting, which was…

  • Weyers Du Toit Local Artist

    Weyers Du Toit Local Artist

    Weyers du Toit grew up in the Western Cape town of Bredasdorp. In the early 1990s he was a student of Fine Arts at the Cape College, working in Oils under the guidance of Liesbeth Gunther. The artist paints from life in the spirit and style known as en plein air, after the French phrase…

  • Isabel le Roux South African Artist

    Isabel le Roux South African Artist

    Isabel le Roux was born in Rustenburg, a city situated at the foot of the Magaliesberg mountain range in North West Province of South Africa. She began her career as an art teacher and has been painting professionally since 1974. Her dynamic style is both expressionistic and contemporary, employing the vibrant and bold use of…

  • Raymond Loewy the Father of Industrial Design

    Raymond Loewy the Father of Industrial Design

    “There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of ‘modernism’. I can claim to have made the daily life of the 20th Century more beautiful.” — Raymond Loewy Historians refer to Raymond Loewy as the designer of the modern world. He began his career drawing for Harper’s Bazaar, Vanity Fair…

  • Peter Wooldridge South African Artist

    Peter Wooldridge South African Artist

    Peter Wooldridge hails from Krugersdorp, a mining town situated in the West Rand district of Gauteng Province, South Africa. After attending the Johannesburg School of Arts, in 1965 Peter obtained a Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Witwatersrand, where he was voted Student of the Year. He initially followed a career as a…

  • Alexis Bester Local Artist Based In Tulbach South Africa

    Alexis Bester Local Artist Based In Tulbach South Africa

    Alexis Bester’s style is naive surrealism. Harlequin and clown images in his work are a product of fascination with the circus and the performing arts.

  • Martha Graham Dancing The Hidden Language of the Soul

    Martha Graham Dancing The Hidden Language of the Soul

    Martha Graham, an influential American dancer and choreographer whose career spanned over seventy years, was the first dancer to perform at the White House

  • Local Hermanus Artist Alyson Guy

    Local Hermanus Artist Alyson Guy

    Among the foremost attractions of Hermanus is the industrious and talented community of artists and writers that live and work in this beautiful coastal town.

  • Local South African Artist Hannetjie de Clercq

    Local South African Artist Hannetjie de Clercq

    The artist’s unique style is strongly sensual and inspired by middle age frescoes and icons. Mainly tempera and also oils and watercolours on canvas.

  • Local Artist Joshua Miles Creates With Reflected Light

    Local Artist Joshua Miles Creates With Reflected Light

    Joshua’s skillful interpretation of shadow and the effect of light on water is featured in many of his oil paintings and reduction woodcuts. He finds his inspiration in the beautiful landscapes of the Overberg and Little Karoo,