Exhibition dates: 27 October – 16 November 2012 With the second Franschhoek Art in Clay Festival, La Motte celebrated how the most basic of materials – clay and water – can be transformed by skill and fire to create varied and interesting objects, from artworks to quality domestic pieces. The La Motte Museum hosted the exhibition...

Each year the Franschhoek Valley celebrates the Art in Clay festival. Within the valley La Motte Museum, The Gallery at Grande Provence, The Ceramic Gallery, Art in the Yard, EBONY, IS Art and Kim Donaldson Gallery are participating showing some exquisite ceramics from various South African potters and ceramists. The Setting – contemporary ceramic tableware on display in the...

Iris, 1985Oil paint on canvas, 193 x 101cm (each) – TriptychRupert Art Foundation, Stellenbosch Andrew Verster was born in Johannesburg and studied design at the Camberwell College of Art in London, he received an Art Teacher’s Diploma in 1960 from Reading University. He is a painter of figures, landscapes, portraits, still life, beach scenes and...

North Coast, 1985Acrylic paint on canvas, 152 x 152cmRupert Art Foundation, Stellenbosch Helmut Starcke was born in Offenbach, West Germany, but resides in South Africa since 1958. Starcke is a self-taught painter of land-and seascapes, plants and interiors. He first worked in oil then tempera and in acrylic on canvas which are generally of monumental...

Landscape Namibia, 1982Oil on canvas, 100 x 115 cmRembrandt van Rijn Art Foundation, Stellenbosch Josua Nell was born in Keetmanshoop, Namibia. He studied art at Rhodes University and is regarded as an extremely versatile artist – painting and sculpting in different media with a wide-range of subject matter. He is most known for his large...

The Violet RampartMixed media on paper, 250 x 200cmRupert Art Foundation, Stellenbosch Karel Anthony Nel was born in 1955 in Pietermaritzburg. He studied at the University of the Witwatersrand and in London. He is a graphic artist and draws in graphite, conté, crayon, charcoal, pastel and sprayed pigment on bonded fibre fabric. Highly regarded for...

Queen’s Tavern Tiger, 1985Wood and paint, 277 x 113 cmRembrandt van Rijn Art Foundation, Stellenbosch Peter Schütz was born in Glogau, Germany but the family immigrated to South Africa in the early 1950s. He studied at the Natal Technical College and completed his M.A. degree through the University of Natal. Schütz is a sculptor working...

Conservationists’ Ball, 1985 Charcoal and mix media on paper, 204 x 364cm Rembrandt van Rijn Art Foundation, Stellenbosch William Kentridge was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and is the son of famous advocate Sydney Kentridge. He studied Political Science and African Studies at WITS and later enrolled in Paris at the famous theatre school of...

    The contemporary exhibition in the La Motte Museum features a selection of the very well-known and often debated Cape Town Triennials. In total four Triennials were held between 1982 and 1992, one every third year. In 1981, the Rembrandt van Rijn Art Foundation, working in association with the Art Museums of South Africa, undertook...

Still life with watermelons and other things, 1985Oil paint on board, 242.5 x 180.5 cmRembrandt van Rijn Art Foundation, Stellenbosch Penny Siopis was born in Vryburg in the Northern Cape. She studied at the University of Rhodes where she obtained her M.A. degree in Fine Art, and in England. Her subject matter include interiors, still-life...