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Marietjie Henning a South African artist has never had formal training, she has always felt a passion for art and did her first oil painting at the age of...
About Marietjie Henning
THE WAY OF A WOMAN
Marietjie Henning a South African artist has never had formal training, she has always felt a passion for art and did her first oil painting at the age of 50.
The themes of her paintings have changed with the emotional ups and downs of her personal life, but sisterhood and maternity is a recurring vision that she feels an affinity to, being a grandmother to 10 children and an artistic haven for the community children.
She used to start out with dark and sombre colours but recently her work represents rich and warm colours.
One of the themes she dotes on is a family of women, complete with “Gogo” (grandmother and her daughters), Sisters and children and Sisterhood.
Marietjie Henning has never had formal training, but she has always felt a passion for art and did her first oil painting at the age of
All tall, mystery figures in a misty, dawn background.
“I feel a coherence with them, a part of their Sisterhood. The shadow figures who carry their children and belongings to the streets to make a living out of selling goods that commuters would buy.
I realized what stren