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Magnificent
magnolia
Size:
1200 x 1000mm (framed) Sold
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Surrender
to Spirit
Size: 1000 x 1700mm (framed)
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Close
Up
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Man
on a pedestal
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A
Flow Of Colour
Size: 900 x 1400mm
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Death
Of A Relationship (2)
Size: 60 x 120mm (framed)
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Another
African Sunshine Day (Work in Progress)
Size: 1400 x 2200mm (framed)
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On
the Way To Caledon Size: 1010 x 1500mm (un-framed)
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Introspection
Size: 1000 x 1000mm (framed)
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Latest
work
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Death
Of A Relationship (2)
Size: 60 x 120mm (framed)
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Pretty
Protea
Size: 900 x 1200mm
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The
Other Side of The Silence
Size: 2100 x 1400mm (framed)
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Pretty
Feisty In The Proteas
Size: 1000 x 1200mm
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Emerging
From The Ashes
Size: 90 x 70mm (framed)
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Latest
Work
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Fields
Of Wax
Size: 1000 x 1200mm
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Wax
Landscape
Size: 1800 x 1200mm
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Moving
Colour
Size: 1200 x 1900mm
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Latest
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Latest
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Sensual
Landscape
Size: 1600 x 2200mm
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Letting
Go
Size: 1000 x 1500mm
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The
vibrant, colourful and evocative work of Estelle Kenyon
is influenced by people in their natural environment.
Her paintings are mostly of women Estelle Kenyon graduated
with a B.A. Ed Fine Arts from Pretoria university in 1987.
She has had numerous exhibitions in South Africa and her
works have been collected by institutions and private collectors
in SA, Africa, Europe and the US. and in the past, her subject
ladies have been from countries as far a field as Peru.
More
recently, she has concentrated on Africa and although she
has visited Tanzania and Zanzibar, she is currently examining
her roots and the people of her home country, South Africa.
Estelle Kenyon graduated with a B.A. Ed Fine Arts from Pretoria
university in 1987. She has had numerous exhibitions in
South Africa and her works have been collected by institutions
and private collectors in SA, Africa, Europe and the US.
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Collections:
- Minister of
Foreign Affairs, Zaire
- Rand Merchant
Bank, South Africa
- French Embassy,
South Africa
- French Embassy,
Namibia
- >Harvard Business
School, Boston, US
- Moni's Corporate
Collection, S.Africa
- Private Collections,
Germany
- Private Collection,
Portugal
- Private Collection,
Switzerland
- Private Collection, Colorado,
US
- Canadian Embassy, Canada
- K.W.V Cultivara, South Africa
Groups:
- Heritage House, Pretoria, December
1992.
- Ardvark Gallery, Johannesburg, October
1994.
- Sanlam Cultural Centre, Rustenburg,
July 1996.
- Gallery Plett, Plettenburg Bay, December
1997.
- Vincent Art Gallery, Stellenbosch,
June 2000.
- Art Images, Park Horst, Johannesburg,
October 2004.
- Cape Gallery, Cape Town, June 2008
- K.W.V Cultivara, Paarl, August 2008
Exhibitions:
Solo:
Karen McKerron Gallery, Johannesburg, 1993. Exhibited 12 oils
on canvas, average size 1.5 x 1.8.m.
Karen Mckerron Gallery, November 1994. Exhibited 8 oils on canvas,
average size 1.2 x 1.7m.
Dorp Street Gallery, Stellenbosch, June 2004.
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A Feast of Woman
Emotional Archives
Sensual Landscapes
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Sheltering
Sky Size: 1200 x 2000mm
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I had a dream, which shed some light on my reasons for painting.
I found myself in a room filled with paint buckets. Some were
empty, some half full and I was lifting up the lids of the
buckets, peering into each one to see if that one had what
I was searching for.
A voice spoke from outside my dream and asked me what I was
looking for and I replied, "I am looking for my soul" I paint
because I cannot not paint. The subject matter I choose is
aspects and objects of life, which I resonate with. There
is a desire to return to nature and the tangibility it has
to offer. There is for me a reassuring honesty in nature.
Western secular life style has created boundaries between
the physical and the spiritual and that influences ones ability
to see clearly. We are bombarded through the media, the government,
dogma etc. of how we should live, what we should think, what
is right and what is wrong so that we are left with no thoughts
of our own and the person we started off with has become a
clone of society. With painting it is an attempt to connect
with that force which fills one with a deeper understanding
of what is.
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Estelle Kenyon's Background:
- Born:
07/02/1960 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
- Education:
BA Ed Fine Arts, University of Pretoria, 1987.
- Employment:
SA Broadcasting Corporation 1988 - 1992. Worked in the news
department in the Quantel Paintbox, producing logos, graphics,
illustrations, etc. Painting full time since 1992.
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