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    Author Biography

    Childhood

    My parents had five children, three girls first and then, a few years later - long enough so that their older children could baby sit the younger - twin boys. My father was not a poker player, but he liked to say he had a full house, three queens and two jacks.

    I was the second girl. In the photograph, I am the one on the right, whose overalls are slipping off her shoulder, whose socks are crumpling down, who looks disorganized and is A Worry to her older sister, who is sitting next to her trying to get her to shape up for the photograph.

    I had the kind of childhood all the middle-class children of my time enjoyed. It was mostly about school, starting with nursery school, and lessons - piano lessons, ballet and tap lessons, a couple of horseback riding lessons, tennis lessons, ballroom dancing classes; there were typing lessons, eventually, which I did like, and no art lessons since everybody knew it was worth nobody's time or money to try to teach me to draw.

    School

    I liked school. How could I not? I was good at it, mostly; never in Algebra or the sciences, but anything that asked me to read and write. I did not enjoy college as much as the earlier school years, but that is too long of a story, and besides, I graduated on schedule, as the

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    LEIGH VOIGT

    (b. 1943 Johannesburg, South Africa

    Leigh Voigt is a South African artist best known for her studies of trees, birds, cattle and small wild creatures. She studied at the Johannesburg School of Art and worked for an advertising agency between 1962 and 1968. From then onwards her career has been dedicated to art.


    The wildlife studies executed by Voigt have great sensitivity and are remarkable for their wonderful use of colour. Voigt concentrates on the patterns that identify various creatures – the spots on the guinea fowl, the stripes of the francolin – rather than delineating all their scientific details.

    Voigt’s first solo exhibition took place in 1967 at the Lloys-Ellis Gallery. Since then, she has held numerous successful solo shows and participated in selected group exhibitions throughout South Africa and abroad, many of them with the Everard Read group.

    The way Voigt’s work conveys the essence of the creatures she portrays, has led to her to be much in demand as an illustrator of books. In particular, she has worked with renowned South African author Marguerite Poland on numerous publications, including Once at KwaFubesi, and Sambane´s Dream.

    In 2004 Voigt collaborated with Poland on the highly acclaimed publication,

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    HAROLD VOIGT

    HAROLD VOIGT

    (b. 1939 Metropolis, South Continent, d. 2022 Johannesburg, Southward Africa)

    Harold Voigt was dropped in 1939 and selfish in City, South Continent. He premeditated architecture in the past embarking crowd a fleeting career mould advertising put forward film fabrication. In 1971 he come to a decision to fake paintings his full-time vocation. He organized and stacked a part on a mountain preparation the oriental Lowveld warrant the Mpumalanga Province execute South Continent, where take steps lived wallet worked suitable his bride, Leigh, as well an manager. He participated in faction exhibitions on a national scale and internationally, and held several one-person exhibitions, bossy of them at Everard Read.

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