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In every woman I know there is a woman I see. If they seem to be mostly women and mostly beautiful women, it is because that is the way I see them mostly women, mostly beautiful. The things I paint are the people around me wherever I may be. The things I paint are the flowers and chairs and tables in my house. The things I paint are the chickens and birds in my garden. In his own words: “I paint whatever triggers my imagination. The things he painted in his South African graphic art included the chickens and birds in his garden, the flowers and chairs and tables in his house and the people who surrounded him. Pieter Van Der Westhuizen painted whatever triggered his imagination. Pieter is widely regarded as one of South Africa’s most popular artists. Pieter van der Westhuizen passed away on the 30th of December 2008, aged 77. During 19 he studied wood-block printing in Japan. In 19 he continued his studies at the Stedelijke Akademie in Ghent and the Ryks Centrum voor Grafiek in Kasterlee, Belgium. During 1979-80 he attended the Nationale Hoger Institute voor Schone Kunst at the Royal Academy for Fine Arts in Belgium. In 1960 this South African artist worked under Alfred Krentz, and in 1971 under Erik Laubscher. His passion for art grew with age, and once he had graduated from high school Pieter studied Art at UNISA under Sakkie Eloff, Leo Theron and Robert Hodgins. His grandmother was a real battle-axe and the archetype of the poor white Afrikaner of the time, but raised him with all the love she was capable of within the confines of her poverty stricken, illiterate existence.Īt the age of about four this budding South African artist decided that this world was not for him and started creating a different world in pictures. His mother passed away when he was three, his father left soon thereafter, and he was left in the care of his maternal grandmother. Pieter van der Westhuizen was born in Pretoria, South Africa, in 1931 - the period between the great drought, the great depression and the Second World War.