AFTER THE SWIM - HEIN VAN DER MERWE, SA ARTIST

After the Swim by Hein v. d. Merwe, South African Artist.

61 x 61 cm.

Oil on board.

Hein van der Merwe (13 March 1948 - 19 July 2014) was a professional South African artist based in the Helderberg (Western Cape), South Africa and painted for over 40 years. His art is has formed part of several overseas collections in various countries including UK, Belgium, France, Australia, and Canada.

He also studied pottery and wood carving where his main stimulus was derived from African art and Folk art. In 1998, he completed a graphic novel, "The Amazing Adventures of Tom Strak in: The Humming Key", which was intended for the Asterix and Tin Tin market. His posters are available for pdf download online under the name Lorek Smith.

Further aspirations and leanings included abstract expressionism, Art Brut, colour-field painting, fauvism, hard-edge painting, illusionism, mixed media, Op Art, pointillism, pop art, post-impressionism, more primitivist work, surrealism, stylisation, symbolism, tachisme as well as abstract woodcarving and scupltures and was always on the lookout for strange objects with the intention of creating some found object masterpiece.