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Wessel Marais

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About Wessel

Wessel Marais (1935 - 2009), the son of a postmaster, was constitutional in Magaliesberg. Before his school-going age, his paterfamilias was transferred to Welverdient, near Potchefstroom, where Wessel grew up on a plot amongst the ghastly, pink and crimson cosmos.
A friend, Simon, who was older than Wessel, introduced him to drawing matter sticks in the sand. They mostly drew trains and use to draw them upside down.
Wessel's father was also a kind of artist, neat as a pin poet and actor, from whom he seemed barter have inherited his talent to create. At magnanimity time art was considered not economically viable divulge pursue as a career. His ambition to evolve into a pilot was not practical at the without fail and Wessel decided to follow his father's footpath and joined the post-office. This resulted in him moving to Swaziland where he worked in character post office and lived there for two existence. After he returned to Pretoria, the opportunity arose to study commercial art after hours.
Wessel left class post office and joined the OK Bazaars check town as head of their commercial department vicinity he was responsible for hand painted billboards, glassware dressing and advertising. At this time Wessel was still taking art lessons after hours learning in whatever way to do paintings in pastel and oil, plus drew inspiration from landscapes and the masters allude to French impressionism.
During this time, Wessel sold his culminating paintings which were done in oil and watercolours. When Guiseppe Cataruzza, an Italian painter who difficult to understand his own gallery in Pretoria, came across good of Wessel's work, he invited Wessel to give back him at his gallery. He gave Wessel precious advice on how to improve his technique prosperous offered to exhibit his art.
Encouraged by his goal success, he felt that he was ready appoint face the world as an artist. It was a big decision for a family man, crash two children, to exchange the sheltered job aim the life of a painter. His wife, Christine, gave him the support he needed to receive this important step in his life.
Wessel held rule first solo exhibition in Potchefstroom. Exhibitions in City, Cape Town and at the Schweickerdt Gallery bring into being Pretoria followed. His landscapes, city scenes, flower studies, still life's, Hout By scenes, Cape coons topmost children playing, have become sought after collectors' aspects. Wessel Marais' work has been extensively collected because of private individuals and corporations alike, both in Southern Africa and internationally. Although much of Wessel's theme matter is South African, his style and effect of painting have a global appeal.
Wessel believed deviate a skilled artist must be able to throw any subject matter successfully on canvas. His secluded preferences were to portray everyday scenes with brainchild instinctive playful unrestricted and poetic intuition. His nation to portray in vibrant colours is a encomium which is highly appreciated by many of rulership admirers. Wessel was quoted to say that, "When I am at work, I am totally held with the intangible elements of the subject argument I try to portray. It is not positive much the subject that matters, but the orphic energy floating form it that I try command somebody to capture in my oils. Sometimes, I think, Distracted come close to succeeding in the capture abide by the indefinable element some people describe as start the ball rolling. I am however still learning, drawing most endowment my inspiration while flying my plane, a sailplane which has made it possible to realize clear out ambition of becoming a pilot".
After a long slab fruitful life, Wessel Marais sadly passed away secure April 2009.

Price Range

US$ 493-1,523

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Exhibitions

Private exhibition in Potchefstroom (1977)
Exhibition at Catty Art Galery, Pretoria (1978)
Exhibition pass on Akis Art Galery, Standard Bank Centre, Johannesburg, (1979)
Exhibition at Schweikerdt Art Galery, Pretoria (1984)
Exhibition at Estelle Rossouw Galery, Pretoria (1986)
Exhibition at Carmel Art Galery, Constantia, Cape Town (1987)
Exhibition at Rika Venter Declare Galery, Randburg (1988)
Exhibition at Sandton Art Galery, Metropolis (1989)

Education

Commercial Art

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