Peter Clarke Originals

 A Collection of Peter Clarke works of art. 

There are four hand coloured lino-cuts in colour each pencil signed with titles and editions

each sheet size: 29,5 by 21cm; image size: 7,5 by 6,5cm, framed

an ink drawing of A Woman Wearing a Doek, 14 by 10cm, and a small oil of landscape, signed on the back.8 by 12cm all came from same collection.

Clarke was born in Simon's Town near Cape Town, in 1929.^[2] Much of his work is inspired by this beautiful coastal village where he lived until 1972, when he was forced to move to Ocean View under the Group Areas Act. He left high school in 1944 and was a dock worker until 1956 when, aged 27, a three-month holiday to Teslaarsdal, a small farming village near Caledon in the South West Cape, began his artistic career.

With assistance from his lifelong friend, poet James Matthews, Clarke held his first solo exhibition in the newsroom of the newspaper The Golden City Post, in 1957. At that time he said: "Before my exhibition, I was just another coloured man. Our people took it for granted that only whites could do such things. Now they are becoming aware of the fact that we can do these things too; that we are human beings."