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Artist's Bio

Ingrid Winterbach is both a novelist and a visual artist. Her novels have been translated into English, Dutch and French. She studied fine arts and Afrikaans & Nederlands at Wits, later lectured in the creative arts department at Stellenbosch university, and subsequently in the department of Afrikaans-Nederlands at UKZN. After twenty-two years in Durban, she and her husband, Andries Gouws, have now been living in Stellenbosch for the past nine years.
This painting is part of a series titled Scenes from South African Life. I based these paintings on small newspaper pictures, chronicling the mostly violent and disturbing aspects of daily life in South Africa – for example, the Marikana shootings.