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ArtAuctionFoodBank South Africa will be hosting a fun auction of South African art in London, featuring artworks ranging from township art to more traditional paintings.

DATE: Thursday 12th November 2009

TIME: 18:30 to 21:30

PLACE: The Foundling Museum
40 Brunswick Square, London
WC1N 1AZ
click here for directions

Complimentary Drinks and Snacks will be served.


 

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To download a catalogue with the dimensions and reserve price of all works on auction, click here.

"Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings." - Nelson Mandela

Click on artist name below to preview their art, and to view a short biography of the artist. Click on any art image to enlarge.

Reserve price(s) for the above work(s) start at £150. To download a catalogue with the dimensions and reserve price of all works on auction, click here. To make a bid on any of the items, email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Reserve price(s) for the above work(s) start at £200. To download a catalogue with the dimensions and reserve price of all works on auction, click here. To make a bid on any of the items, email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Born and raised in Cape Town, Jennifer studied Graphic Design at the Cape Town Technicon and worked in the commercial sector for many years.

Since 1992 she has set up a studio at home and is concentrating on developing and exploring her personal vision of fine art.

Jennifer is perhaps best known for her bold and vibrant small paintings in oils, her vision expressed through wild flowers and local landscapes.

However, her range includes larger landscapes and aquascapes on canvass - the mood being very expressive, with sweeping brush strokes and bold colour.

"Painting is like walking a tightrope; one must find a perfect balance between what the paint wants to do and what the painter wants to express, otherwise all is lost. My dream is, and I'm striving towards, creating highly contemplative and complex abstract works on canvass, but the journey is a long one. I always feel flattered when my paintings find their way into homes across the world."

Reserve price(s) for the above work(s) start at £250. To download a catalogue with the dimensions and reserve price of all works on auction, click here. To make a bid on any of the items, email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Chanelle Kotze is an established artist, who was born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa.

Since her early childhood days she has had a love for drawing and working in colour. She is completely self taught, and started her career in 2005, exhibiting her work in art galleries around Cape Town. Her work consists of farm landscapes, abstracts and flower paintings, focusing on creating decorative paintings to enlighten homes. She works in the medium acrylic and mixed media. She started painting fulltime in October 2005, after giving up her bookkeeping job. In March 2007 she bought a small art gallery in the Northern Suburbs of Cape Town, selling it a year later, to spend more time with her then newborn daughter, Katya. In 2008 she decided to create a greeting card range, to help raise profits for the Starfish Greatheart Foundation. She is currently selling them to Exclusive Books Nationally.
One of her wishes is to guide people to their creative selves, to provide inner healing through the creative text.

"My philosophy in life is keeping it simple. Less is more. That applies to my work and to the rest of my life.

Mostly my art expresses is my way of seeing things. If I had to describe my work in one sentence, I would say it is my version of beauty."

Chanelle is well known for her commission work she undertakes, and she will gladly discuss any requirements with prospective clients. Her name appears on more than seven hundred works of art, proudly displayed in homes and offices locally and overseas.

"I truly feel blessed with all of my success up to now, and strongly believe it is due to faith, listening and following that inner voice, we all so desperately need to hear."

She continues to produce pieces that have become a pleasure to so many homes.

Reserve price(s) for the above work(s) start at £150. To download a catalogue with the dimensions and reserve price of all works on auction, click here. To make a bid on any of the items, email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Helene Kruger grew up in Oudtshoorn and as a teenager moved to Cape Town. As long as she can remember drawing was part of her life.

A visit to France inspired her to imitate the old masters, and she began a full time painting career selling many paintings in galleries all over Cape Town. About 5 years ago she started doing abstracts and African Art but after becoming bored with it, she now focuses on naïve art, though still does some serious still life work.

Figure 3 - Janet Malherbe

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Since the sudden passing of her only daughter, Janet Malherbe has found drawing and painting a wonderful therapeutic tool to her emotional recovery. Humans and the human form have always fascinated her and her greatest delight is to try to capture the essence and hidden emotions of her subjects. Timeless artists who inspire her are, amongst others, classic masters e.g. Rembrandt, Degas, Mary Cassat, Salvador Dali and Rodin. Local inspiration comes from South African artists Kerri Evans, Shany van den Berg and John Meyer.
Her preferred medium is oil and pastels, but she is currently enjoying figurative studies in brush and ink, as in the work on display.

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Both originally from Zimbabwe, Nathan (26 years) and Ticha (21 years) have been living in South Africa selling their ‘street art' to make a living. Nathan has been here for three years and Ticha only for a year and they have both only been painting since they arrived on the South African shores.

They both live in Plumstead and Nathan has two daughters back home in Zimbabwe who live with his mother. They both say "life in South Africa is much better than Zimbabwe" and they plan to live here as long as necessary to provide for their loved ones.

Their street art is unique to South Africa and they use bright bold colours to portray the mountains and the seas. They also show the typical township life with the health facilities and the soccer stadiums that is a large pass-time in South Africa among the township people. These pieces are fun and lively and can brighten up any room in your house or office.

14 works will be available for auction at the event.

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Reserve price(s) for the above work(s) start at £200. To download a catalogue with the dimensions and reserve price of all works on auction, click here. To make a bid on any of the items, email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

A true son of the Boland agriculture and wine growing region of South Africa. Frank as he is known by all , decided to keep the name " Adonis" for his mother and immediate family.

Art and art appreciation formed little inspiration at school where Frank completed his standard 8 in 1976. Immediately he entered the adult life as a process worker in the can making factory. He used to live and work close to many townships, so it is hardly surprising that he began to use the strips and off cuts from to factories to fashion his own multi media approach to depiction of township life.

Of himself and his work, Frank says, "I am a multi-media self taught artist, who works as a painter. My inspiration in life is people and townships. It is very powerful, graceful sometimes cruel and beautiful all at the same time. I use many Red's on my palette. To me it's the hardship and pain of daily township life! Ultimately my work is about life on the other side. I am very interested in the African culture and am strongly influenced. I am very blessed to be a painter, now I can share my vision and experience with the whole world."


Though humble before his refined talent and expression, the eye of the beholder is drawn to the subtle messages contained in each of his works. To many born outside the township, it seems that not even "hope" can survive the environmental squalor. That and open dignity is exactly what prospers and drives people on to improve their lives and certainly that of their children. Normally we look to privacy to support our own pride and reinforce our self worth. In township life there is no privacy but there is hope, respect and fervent religious zeal, all contributing to the sprit of survival and upliftment which is so important to progress.

Frank's art and his strong religious convictions give him a unique perspective to observe the high brand labels mixed with the litter and breakdown of services and make not a judgement but a "record of progress".

Franks work is well worth collecting for private or corporate collections since he himself - just like his raw subject matter-is evolving with the passage of time. His work is also improving in quality and perception.

Reserve price(s) for the above work(s) start at £400. To download a catalogue with the dimensions and reserve price of all works on auction, click here. To make a bid on any of the items, email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Sol was born in Otjiwarongo, Namibia. He matriculated at Jan van Riebeeck high school in Cape Town and studied graphic design at the Cape Technicon.

He became a full-time artist in 2003, leaving behind a 20year career in the restaurant trade. Sol is known for his spiritual art and uses his art to teach and portray the beauty and majesty of life, the miracles that lies beyond the dogma of Sunday teachings, the unity of all and every thing and the power of faith. With his paintings he asks the viewer to go beyond the physical without discarding it. Sol was influenced by the artists Da Vinci, Dali and Keith Alexander, and off course, his beloved Namibian desert.

Sol also studied alternative healing methods and became an Electro magnetic field practitioner in 1999. He teaches art, meditation and hosts spiritual courses and counseling, from his home in Riebeeck Kasteel.

Reserve price(s) for the above work(s) start at £200. To download a catalogue with the dimensions and reserve price of all works on auction, click here. To make a bid on any of the items, email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Reserve price(s) for the above work(s) start at £200. To download a catalogue with the dimensions and reserve price of all works on auction, click here. To make a bid on any of the items, email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

The ethereal, sensitive oil paintings and artwork by Shany van den Berg capture a mood reminiscent of contemporary mannerism and romanticism with a strong focus on womanhood. She succeeds in communicating the multilayered emotions, ideas and modern concepts with a classical approach to portraiture and captures these ideas with a meticulous attention to detail, simplicity and subtle symbolism.

Shany was born in Riversdale in the Western Cape in 1958 ,and matriculated from CJ Langenhoven Highschool. She studied ceramics parttime from 1982 to 1985 at Paarl College, and life drawing and painting part-time at Ruth Prowse School of Art from 1990 to 1992. Since then she works as a fulltime artist, developing her own technique, in oil painting and three dimensional, producing work exhibited at various galleries.

Reserve price(s) for the above work(s) start at £150. To download a catalogue with the dimensions and reserve price of all works on auction, click here. To make a bid on any of the items, email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Reserve price(s) for the above work(s) start at £200. To download a catalogue with the dimensions and reserve price of all works on auction, click here. To make a bid on any of the items, email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Primarily a fine artist, though also a graphic designer and illustrator, Ruth Winger paints mainly in watercolours, which has always been her favourite medium. She finds that the luminosity, translucence, fluidity, and spontaneous results in this medium make it a constant challenge.

She was born in Pretoria, South Africa, and raised in Zambia, the oldest daughter of missionaries. She is now resident in Baden Ontario, Canada, but still takes frequent trips back to Africa. This continent holds a fascination for her: the light, the air, the whole essence, keeps drawing her back.

Her mother, Winsome Hetty (Marshall) Muggleton was also primarily a watercolour artist.


 

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