Description
Kevin Roberts was born in Rustenburg, in the Northwest province of South Africa. He received a National Diploma in Fine Arts in 1988, followed by a National Higher Diploma in Fine Arts, both from Pretoria Technikon. His serene, balanced and carefully constructed paintings and sculptures have received widespread acclaim. Women are the subject of his calm surrealist works, which often include animals along with recurring symbolic motifs. The weft, those varied horizontal threads that provide the colour, pattern and the pictorial surface to woven cloth, can be seen as the figures, images, objects and surroundings that Roberts so painstakingly depicts, and the symbolic meanings that they suggest.
