This exhibition by Roelof Roussouw is called ‘My Boland Journey’ referring to the artist’s passion for this beautiful
South African region that boasts majestic mountain ranges, rows of vineyards, orchards, rivers and quaint whitewashed workers’ cottages.
Roelof always longed to live in this area and in 1995 his career was established enough to allow him to move from Gauteng to Robertson where he resided for 16 years. This enabled him to travel to nearby areas to indulge in painting all these scenically inspirational locations.
For more than 20 years Roelof has been painting landscapes of the Boland region (wine farms with majestic mountains northeast of Cape Town) namely Stellenbosch, Franschhoek, Paarl, Rawsonville, Worcester and Robertson
‘’As a child I would love visiting my grandparents on their old farm near the Swaziland border. It was a small and simple farm, but the beauty of that part of the world with its great mountains and unspoilt ruggedness made a lasting impression on me. Today I’m very happy to live in Somerset west, which is also part of the Boland, I love to paint dust roads, trees, vineyards,
mountains, farm dams, old farm barns and houses’’ [ See Profile, Exhibitions and Awards below]
Take a Boland Journey and head for MOK Gallery in Stellenbosch and enjoy the Roelof Roussouw exhibition. ENJOY!
Another reason that Cape Town is placed 3rd in Time Out’s World’s Best Cities for Culture!
WHAT: Roelof Roussouw – My Boland Journey
WHERE: MOK Gallery, Muratie Wine Estate, Knorhoek Road, Koelenhof, Stellenbosch, 7605
WHEN: | Gallery Hours Mon to Sun 10:00 – 17:00
INFO: Cecile Blevi T 072 5535547  | E cecileblevi@gmail.com | Visit
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PROFILE – Studied at the Johannesburg School of Art gaining a National Diploma in Art and Design.
Employed by the Medical University of Southern Africa as graphic artist and medical illustrator from 1982 UNTIL 1990. In 1992 Roelof started painting seriously daily. And in 1995 achieved success and become a full-time artist
EXHIBITIONS between 1988 and 2023 Roelof had a total of 47 solo exhibitions at top galleries in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Cheltenham UK. In 1999 a three-man exhibition at the Gatehouse Gallery, Glasgow. Numerous group exhibitions in South Africa, London, Cheltenham, Glasgow, Jersey, Galway, Montreal, Miami and at the Broadway Gallery, New York
AWARDS: First, second and third place in the American Art Awards 2014: First place tie in 2019 in the category: HUMAN IMPRESSIONISM. First place in 2020 and 2023 in the category: STILL LIFE ‘’One of the World’s Best Living Artists’’ according to the American Art Awards and judged by 25 of the top galleries in the USA
