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Cecil Edwin Frans Skotnes

Cecil Edwin Frans Skotnes (1926 - 2009) was active/lived in South Africa, Africa.  Cecil Skotnes is known for Abstract figurative carved and painted wood panels, drawings.

Cecil Edwin Frans Skotnes was born in 1926 in East London, South Africa. In 1978 he moved his family home from Johannesburg to Cape Town. Here he became enmeshed with the Cape vineyard culture, and he was much in demand to execute murals and commissions for wine farms. The Skotnes Bar at the Norval Foundation Museum is a fitting nod to this history. In 1981 Skotnes' first Cape Town solo exhibition Passage Through an Alien Land, was held at the Wolpe Gallery. During this time Skotnes stopped working in wood and returned to painting, harking back to his early experiments and interest in landscapes. The artist shared: “Down here the first few pictures I made, thirty to forty little pictures which I called 'Passage through an alien land' were shown at the Wolpe Gallery, 6.5. The discovery of colour and painting started there, and there was a justification for it. Somehow or other, once I got on to the woodcut, then the woodblock – that sort of world – I realised that I had to extDubow, Neville. 1996 Landscapes of the mind. In Harmsen, F. (ed.). Cecil Skotnes. Cape Town: South African Breweries. 111–128.   ...  [Displaying 1126 of 3957 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Cecil Edwin Frans Skotnes

   Cecil Edwin Frans Skotnes  Born:  1926 - East London, South Africa
Died:   2009 - CapeTown, South Africa
Known for:  Abstract figurative carved and painted wood panels, drawings
Name variants:  Cecil Edwin Frans

Cecil Edwin Frans Skotnes was born in 1926 in East London, South Africa. In 1978 he moved his family home from Johannesburg to Cape Town. Here he became enmeshed with the Cape vineyard culture, and he was much in demand to execute murals and commissions for wine farms. The Skotnes Bar at the Norval Foundation Museum is a fitting nod to this history. In 1981 Skotnes' first Cape Town solo exhibition Passage Through an Alien Land, was held at the Wolpe Gallery. During this time Skotnes stopped working in wood and returned to painting, harking back to his early experiments and interest in landscapes. The artist shared: “Down here the first few pictures I made, thirty to forty little pictures which I called 'Passage through an alien laDubow, Neville. 1996 Landscapes of the mind. In Harmsen, F. (ed.). Cecil Skotnes. Cape Town: South African Breweries. 111–128.  ...  Displaying 876 of 3957 characters.

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