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Casey van der Leek (1970 – )
At the age of 13, Casey watched a national television documentary of his great grandfather, Tinus de Jongh. After which he began on a mission of self-learning.
Casey began his studies towards a degree in civil engineering. He would nevertheless paint on weekends and often take time out with trips to Cape Point and the Wine lands. His seascapes of this period are dark and moody.
With a combined career as an artist and engineer in mind he completed his second degree, in electronic engineering at the University of Cape Town, and financed all his expenses by painting on weekends. Unfortunately, opportunities in his field of interest were rather limited, and he was left with very little time to paint. Since then he has been working as a full-time artist. The departure from the De Jongh paintings is thus not to create ’picture perfect’ Cape scenes.
