South African Artists Online

A selection of works by South Arican Masters are offered for sale to private buyers and galleries. Rare, exclusive and increasingly valuable, these pieces will appeal not only to discerning collectors, but to all who cherish the great tradition and heritage of South African art. Please contact us for prices.

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Hannetjie de Clerq’s career started at the age of eighteen when she exhibited for the first time. Her work is unique in the South African art sphere and shows a juxtaposition of emotions, of things ancient and modern, strongly sensual, sometimes light-hearted and often tinged with a sense of sadness. Her fascination for the purity of medieval iconography, interconnected with 20th century technology, social realities and the ambiguity of surrealism is obvious.

The preferred media that she works in is tempera and oil on canvas and her inspiration for the special technique she uses in painting comes from frescoes and icons from the middle ages, especially Giotto’s work. She feels that an over- explanation of her work would render it impotent and therefore does not title her paintings. For her, the beauty of art is in the interaction between the viewers with their subjective personal view and a specific painting, allowing specific meaning to be found in the imagery.

Hannetjie de Clercq has been acknowledged as one of South Africa’s top artists by SASOL, resulting in her work forming part of the impressive SASOL art collection. She shares this honour with iconic South African artists like Walter Battis, Maggie Laubser, J H Pierneef, Alexander Rose-Innes and Irma Stern, amongst others.

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Derric van Rensburg, internationally renowned for his superb impressionist paintings, is widely rated as one of South Africa’s top artists. He is well known for his colourful landscapes, the vineyards of the Western Cape, abstract wildlife and the use of bright acrylic colours in these paintings.

Following humble beginnings, Derric has emerged as one of the true heavyweights of the local and international art scenes. Having always felt a profound connection to the natural environment since early childhood, this versatile and prolific artist draws his inspiration from the abundant beauty found in the African landscape, as well as the rich variety of people, fauna and flora inhabiting it. To the delight of audiences at home and abroad, his broad brush strokes and sometimes abstract visual intensity, coupled with ingenious inpressionist flair, continues to capure the true aesthetic essence of this rugged continent. It all started at the age of ten when he completed his first pencil drawing, and his career later followed the commercial and manufacturing world of the creative arts. He progressed to teaching art before becoming a professional artist in 1986.He has contributed richly to the development of emerging artists in South Africa, not only through teaching art as a profession, but also through numerous workshops and private tutorials across the country.

Derric has exhibited many times in South Africa, Portugal, England, Germany, Italy and Australia, and most of his commissions are placed by multinational corporate clients and a number of South Africa’s finest hotels.

Click here for more info on the new coffee table book celebrating Derric van Rensburg’s art.

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Jan Vermeiren is an artist whose work bridges two rich and vastly different continents. On the one hand there is his European heritage; on the other is the profound influence of Africa, which has become his home when he moved to South Africa in 1976.

Jan was born in Bornem, Belgium in 1949 and studied art full-time at the Academy St Niklaas, the Academy of Mechelen and the National Hoger Institute in Antwerp. After being invited to teach lithography in 1973 in South Africa, he decided to stay on indefinitely.
Jan was profoundly influenced by the extensive range of colours he found in the local land- and cityscapes, compared to the relative blandness of the European spectrum, Belgium in particular.

His work is an expression not of outer reality, but of the subconscious, and it is this instinctive approach that gives his paintings their dreamlike, spiritual quality. He asks the viewer to react on the same subconscious and spontaneous level, both to the form and content of his work. With his paintings he aims to bring the viewer into the spirit of Africa, thereby encouraging a deeper understanding of the African identity.

Jan Vermeiren’s work can be found in the acclaimed South African Sanlam and SASOL collections, as well as the South African museums in Pretoria, Durban and Bloemfontein. Abroad his work can be found on display in Belgian and Yugoslavian museums.

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Jac Kritzinger was born in 1976 in South Africa. This talented self-taught photographer is not afraid to experiment; although his lens is primarily drawn to the grandeur and diversity of nature, his images covers a wide range of subject matter, forcing us to look closer at what we percieve as everyday reality. He believes that, as spiritual and essentially visual beings, our world is constantly defined by the ethereal language of light. Every so often this language speaks to us in such a way that it transforms and enhances the reality which we percieve, revealing the brilliance and mystical beauty that resides just beneath the surface. His aim is to embrace and explore these moments.

In striving to capture this purer, almost heightened sense of reality when- and wherever it aims to express itself within daily life, Jac’s mastery of the medium is utilized to full poetic effect. His works are becoming well-known for their stark, dramatic sense of composition, resulting in a kind of clinical, almost mathematical beauty. Taut with symbolism and ever compelling, his images exudes a great sense of serenity; however, the promise of passionate kinetics and dynamic energy is often present within the frame.

He currently resides at a popular seaside village in the Overberg . The natural splendour and diversity of this region, dotted with rocky coastlines, secluded beaches, beautiful fynbos and spectacular sunsets, serves as a great source of inspiration.

To view more of his work, please visit www.jackritzinger.co.za

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This is a selection of beautiful art by less known South African artists, which we feel will enhance the homes, offices or other open spaces, when it is displayed there. Browse through these and you will probably find something here that you have not seen in an art gallery yet.

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