Adriaan Boshoff
Adriaan Boshoff was born in Pretoria in
1935 and passed away in 2007. He was a self-taught artist of landscapes,
sea scapes, still life and figures. Adriaan Boshoff was known as the Renoir of
South Africa. His light, impressionistic
style was the gift of trying, not so much to capture light, as to stop time. As
Boshoff said: “I want to capture
fleeting moments before they disappear forever.” Adriaan did become South
Africa’s foremost impressionist over
the last 40 years.
His work has been exhibited to acclaim
around the world and is collected by enthusiasts from New York to
Auckland. Like so many great artists, he did not work quickly – he often
progressed laboriously to what the
untrained eye may acclaim to be the perfect canvass only to tear it up and
start again. He was his own, most
austere critic.
