Profile Category: Artist

Mothobi Mefane is an artist born and bred in Bloemfontein. Like many artists he developed his love for art when he was still in primary school.

Lazarus Ramontseng was born in the Free State province of South Africa. He is a self-taught artist who showed his artistic talent since he was a young boy. Ramontseng moved to Johannesburg soon after completing high school to pursue a career as an artist.

Karla Nixon is a Durban based artist who predominantly works with paper. She hand cuts and sculpts intricate images drawn from her surrounding environment. Nixon completed her degree in Fine Art cum laude in 2012 at the Durban University of Technology, South Africa. Her degree focused on paper cutting as a contemporary art form.

Wessel van Huyssteen is an artist and filmmaker. He matriculated in 1980 at Voortrekker High School, Bethlehem, Free State. In 1985 he acquired a BA Fine Arts (Cum Laude for Painting & Drawing) from the Free State University. In 1990 he acquired his BA Honours in Art History at Johannesburg University. In 2017 he received his Master of Arts in Fine Arts ...

Bevan de Wet was born in 1985 in Johannesburg South Africa where he currently lives and work as an artist and printmaker. De Wet works primarily with paper, exploring etching, relief printing, papermaking, drawing and paper folding techniques.

Motsoeokae Klas Thibeletsa was born in 1960 on a farm in the Sout Pan area outside of Bloemfontein.
Following his community’s forced relocation to Thaba Nchu in the 1980s, he applied for work as a cook at the Gedult Mine in Welkom and worked on the mines between 1990 and 1995.

Sithembiso Zwane was born in 1989 at Baragwanath Hospital situated in Soweto. He completed his matric in 2008 and studied printmaking at Artist Proof Studio between 2009 -2010. In 2011 he started painting murals with Dancing Brushes, the company that he founded, and in 2014 he started to refocus on printmaking ...

Clara Victor, born in Bloemfontein and inspired by the Lord’s wonderful creation, she paints has painted full-time since 1994 and enjoys to use her talent by painting in realistic or naturalistic styles. Victor prefers to paint in silence where she creates to heart’s delight.

Jeannette Unite, born in 1964, is a South African artist who has mined for her paint box by collecting oxides, metal salts and residues from mines, heritage and industrial sites, to develop paint, pastel and glass recipes for her large scale artworks that reflect on the mining and industrial sites where human's contemporary world is manufactured ...

Jan Maanda Thsikhuthula was born in the small town of Tzaneen, South Africa, in 1983. His love for art grew from 12 years of age, as he learned to draw and paint landscapes. He enrolled at the Motongoni Art Academy in 2005, and during this time he was introduced to different media and methods.