Karen Laurence-Rowe was born in Uganda, daughter to a civil engineer.  Living a nomadic existence, her childhood years were spend trailing across eastern Africa watching her father carve roads into a land teaming with game and sweeping landscapes – an Africa virtually unspoiled in the early sixties.  Karen has lived in Africa all her life […]

The indomitable Nadia Kisseleva goes from strength to strength.  She recently completed her Masters in Fine Art at the University of Birmingham and came top of her year, winning the prestigious Gertrude Aston Bowater Bursary. Born in Voronesh, Russia, Nadia has trained at the Ryazan College of Art; the Academy of Art in Leningrad; the […]

Jean Denison was born in South Africa and raised in the foothills of Kwazulu -Natal.  This provided her with a very special and natural upbringing, saturated with wildlife and traditional African traditions.  Jean studied fashion design at the Tshwane University of Pretoria before going on to study medical illustration at Medical University of Southern Africa. […]

Walter de Melo Koch was born in Lourenço Marques (now Maputo) in Mozambique to a German/Portuguese father and a Portuguese mother.  From 1955 to 1963 he was privately educated in his home town by a tutor Dona Natália Rosetti.  In 1961 his father passed away and he was sent to  boarding school is South Africa. […]

John Wilhelm was born in East London, South Africa in 1947 and attended Florida Park High School in Johannesburg.  At the age of 30, he became a full-time student at Natal University, Pietermaritzburg, studying under Hilda Ditchburn, Juliet Armstrong and David Walters.  In 1980 he was apprenticed to Bryan Haden in Gordon’s Bay and specialised […]

Boniface Chikwenhere was born in 1981 in Kwekwe, Zimbabwe, but he currently lives in Cape Town. He learnt the skills of patience and identification needed for carving at an early age from his uncles, and as a child he worked diligently on these skills.  With each piece he creates he develops a greater respect for […]

Sue van Rensburg has a degree in Fine Art (Ed) from Stellenbosch University, with a major in painting, and a Masters degree in Educational Philosophy (UWC). She was drawn to ceramics, which provided a sculptural base for her decorated surfaces. All her plates and vessels are hand made and different,  in the interest of pursuing originality […]

Jeanette Carr grew up and lived in Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe until 2005.  She trained as an artist at St. Martin’s School of Art in London from 1958 to 1961.  Back in Africa while raising a family she initially worked as a graphic designer in advertising agencies, then freelanced, taught private art classes and painted; eventually returning […]

Garth Meyer is a studio potter producing hand thrown functional and decorative porcelain, stoneware, terracotta and raku pots, in a wide variety of styles, ranging from modern to classic and Anglo-Oriental.  Lidded jars, large containers and large thrown wares are his speciality.  A bit of a recluse, who has lived and worked in Stanford, Stellenbosch, […]

Hennie Meyer is a highly acclaimed South African ceramicist. From 1993 to the present day, his CV monitors his meteoric rise through the ceramic art world, his prowess being recognised by the countless awards he has received. He is published in numerous art books and was awarded a medal at the Fifth World Ceramic Biennale […]