Notes

The artist stayed at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.

Verster painted and drew the people close to him. They were conveniently available sitters, but the artworks are also a record of his affections and capacity for enduring friendships. His Aunt Ruth was a favourite subject. As a young artist studying in London, he painted Ruth, rather melancholy paintings of a solitary figure against a flat ground. When Andrew was at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, Ruth came to visit from London and Andrew made numerous drawings of her in pencil crayon and charcoal. Verster maintained a lifelong correspondence with his aunt, usually writing every day, banging away on an Olivetti typewriter before he had a computer.
Clive van den Berg