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South African 1958 –
Hannetjie De Clerq’s career started at the age of 18 in Pretoria. Her work is unique in the South African art sphere and shows a juxtaposition of emotions of things ancient and modern. Her fascination for the purity of medieval iconography interconnected with 20th century technology, social realities and the ambiguity of surrealism is obvious.
The preferred media that she works in is tempera, watercolour and oil on canvas and the inspiration for the special techniques she uses in painting, comes from frescoes and icons from the middle ages, especially Giotto’s work. She also finds inspiration in the intuitiveness of her African soul seated in European history.
Hannetjie de Clercq has been acknowledged as one of South Africa’s top artists by SASOL where her work forms part of the impressive SASOL ART COLLECTION where she shares this honour with other famous South African artists like Walter Battiss, Gregoire Boonzaier, Frans Claerhout, Robert Hodgins, Gordon Vorster and Louis Jansen van Vuuren, amongst others.
