John Kotzé Art
About
Born In Malawi, John has lived and worked in Zimbabwe since just after independance. His realist style finds its inspiration in the many commonplace scenes that often pass unnoticed through our lives. These might be objects arranged and displayed for sale or some scaffolding on a building site. To these scenes John brings his particular eye to focus on what might pass us by in the daily rush that is urban life in southern Africa.
What he looks for in all his paintings is not just the obects depicted, but especially the abstract pattern and rhythm created by collections of sometimes banal objects or scenes in our lives. These underlying patterns might derive from the manner in which a vendor stacks her goods or some natural intrinsic visual rhythm created by reflections of sun off shiny metal.
What also drives him in his art is the creation of artworks that are individually memorable. Once you have seen his paintings, they will stick in your mind for long afterwards.