Marjorie Wallace (artist)
Marjorie Wallace
Onrus, Western Cape) was a Scottish-born South African artist, known for her ties to the Sestigers
literary movement.
Wallace trained at the Edinburgh College of Art, greatly impressing with her early work and becoming the youngest person to be elected to the Royal Scottish Academy.[1]
She was awarded a travel grant to visit Europe and Italy when she graduated in 1947. At the end of her travels she settled in
Adam Small, Bartho Smit, Chris Barnard, Hennie Aucamp, Dolf van Niekerk, Abraham H. de Vries and Elsa Joubert.[2]
Her painting technique involved uniformly coloured areas of oil, using a light and often bright palette. It was a style well-suited to the ambience of the Western Cape. She shied away from the abstraction popular during the 60s and 70s, and declared her preference for the human figure.
References
- ^ "The Cape Gallery, MARJORIE WALLACE". www.capegallery.co.za. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
- ^ "Marjorie Wallace | Online Art Gallery | Artists Exhibiting Original Art". www.southafricanartists.com. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
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