Art lovers are in for a treat with the opening of Cher van Schouwen’s lively exhibition of works in oil on canvas from Friday. Her work vibrates with a refreshing joie de vivre as she explores self-contours, colours, space and balance in thick busy layers of colour and its evident that she paints for the pure love of art.
This self-trained artist has been painting professionally for the last two and a half years and her work captured the attention of art-dealer Joshua Rossouw in 1998.
This has resulted in more and more art lovers being introduced to Rossouw’s “new discovery”. Her work is eagerly being added to collections all over the world and has already been commissioned by international art collectors.
Since leaving Zululand where she was born in 1975, Cher studied journalism at Rhodes University and completed an interior diploma course in Cape Town before marrying a Stanford farmer. On the farm, surrounded by breathtaking beauty of the fynbos, her creative energy knew no bounds and she started painting professionally, allowing her vivacious personality to spill onto the canvases in an explosion of patent enjoyment. It is these works that will be on exhibition at Gallery No 10 Harbour Road. The exhibition will be open daily from 9.30 – 5.00 until 1 February and should not be missed by serious art lovers.