 |
Basil Baqwa |  |
|
 |
|||
| Name: | Basil Baqwa | ||
| Location: | Soweto | ||
| Date of birth: | 1954 | ||
| Date of death: | |||
| Description: | Basil Baqwa Born in 1954 in Soweto. He attended school in Jubalani and it was when he came home from school in the afternoons that he indulged in his love for painting and sketching. After finishing school he worked in an attorneys office cleaning and making tea for the staff. At night and over weekends he would visit artists such as David Mbele, Godfrey Ndaba and Ben Macala and would sketch with them. They gave him the basic technique to use art materials, to view subjects and helped him to develop a style of his own. Although he slowly advanced his career at the attorneys office to filing, his love of art made him take a decision to stop working and concentrate on painting. He tried to sell his work at curios shops but was not satisfied with his sales. So he joined the Fuba Art Centre and started exhibiting with other artists. Exhibitions were held with groups in Cape Town, Durban and Bloemfontein. Art lovers, tourists and corporations have bought his work locally and overseas. Basil was commissioned to do a piece of art for an ICC billboard welcoming the Kenyans to South Africa 2003. The billboard shows the Kenyan cricketers being welcomed to South Africa by the cricketers holding their bats in the same way as the Kenyans hold their spears. | ||
 |
|||
 |
 |
||
WIZARDWORX