Stokhuyzen, Frederike

South African landscapes, treescape, rockscapes and flowerscapes as well as wildlife are the embracing theme of Frederike’s work. Painting only what she feels deeply about, the sheer beauty of nature is captured in this exhibition with honesty and originality. Watercolours or pen and wash are executed on the spot in the course of her travels, while the oils are painted exclusively with a palette knife in her studio, a technique that gives her work a dramatic and unique quality.

Born in Johannesburg of Dutch parents, her training commenced at Rhodes University where she obtained her degree in Fine Art and subsequently a teaching diploma. Then followed a period at Central Art School, London in the design and making of stained glass windows – a technique that is transported with such great dramatic effect in her paintings.

Frederike has held many successful exhibitions both at home and in Europe where her reputation is now firmly established. In addition she has executed a number of important commissions for collectors in the USA – Firestone, Goodyear, General Motors, Ford.

“If all good painting is based on love and study, the mastery of technique and the originality of vision, all these combine in Fredrike’s work and are the qualities which make her paintings haunting and unique”. (Alfred Ewan – Watercolourist and Lecturer at Rhodes)

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Frederike Stokhuyzen

Born 1938 Johannesburg

South African landscapes, treescape, rockscapes and flowerscapes as well as wildlife are the embracing theme of Frederike’s work. Painting only what she feels deeply about, the sheer beauty of nature is captured in this exhibition with honesty and originality. Watercolours or pen and wash are executed on the spot in the course of her travels, while the oils are painted exclusively with a palette knife in her studio, a technique that gives her work a dramatic and unique quality.

Born in Johannesburg of Dutch parents, her training commenced at Rhodes University where she obtained her degree in Fine Art and subsequently a teaching diploma. Then followed a period at Central Art School, London in the design and making of stained glass windows – a technique that is transported with such great dramatic effect in her paintings.

Frederike has held many successful exhibitions both at home and in Europe where her reputation is now firmly established. In addition she has executed a number of important commissions for collectors in the USA – Firestone, Goodyear, General Motors, Ford.

“If all good painting is based on love and study, the mastery of technique and the originality of vision, all these combine in Fredrike’s work and are the qualities which make her paintings haunting and unique”. (Alfred Ewan – Watercolourist and Lecturer at Rhodes)

Studied:

Rhodes University, Grahamstown B A Fine Arts - 6 –1959
Central School of Art, London – 1960

Solo Exhibitions

Vanderbijlpark 1960, ’61, ’63, ’68, ’69.
Cape Town 1963, ’75, ’86, ’89, ’90, ’91, ’92, ’98
Plymouth, England 1964
Grahamstown 1971, ’84, ’91, ’93, ’94,’97,’99, ‘01
Port Elizabeth 1968, ‘71
Pretoria 1970, ’72 ’80 ’82 ‘85
Bloemfontein 1972, ‘77
London – England 1974, ’76 ’79 ‘81
Johannesburg 1977, ’84, ‘87
Windhoek 1981
Durban 1983
The Cape Gallery, Cape Town 2003, 2008
Concourse Room, Jersey 2004
St Steven's Church, Pinelands (watercolour exhibition) 2006

Group Exhibitions

The Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI) 1964, ’66, ’67, ’73, ‘74, 2006, 2007, 2008
The Royal Institute, Winter Salon 1965
The Royal Society of British Artists 1964
The National Society – London 1965
The Society of Graphic Artists, London 1966
The Paris Salon 1966, ’68, ’69, ‘71
Republic Exhibition – Durban 1981
SA Watercolour Exhibition – Nuremberg 1979
SA South Africa Today 1975, ‘77
The Society of Wild Life Artists – London 1993, ’94.

Commisions include:

General Motors USA
Ford USA
Goodyear USA
National Parks Board
Nedbank
Syfrets and Cape of Good Hope Bank
Malbak Group