PICTURE 17.5x14cm : MOUNTING BOARD 26.5x25cm

Lambert Kriedemann was born in 1951 and has lived in Cape Town since he was 11 years old. He taught himself to paint in watercolour when he was 10 and sold his first oil painting at the age of 13. He finished school in 1968 with art as a subject and began studying architecture in 1970. In spite of good results, he left at the end of his first year. After several art-related jobs in the theatre and film industries he became a full-time art student. Six months later he abandoned his studies in order to work as art director in a series of film advertisements. In 1972 Lambert spent almost a year on the island of Formentera in the Mediterranean, where he made a precarious living as an artist. On returning to Cape Town, he worked for an architect before returning to painting permanently. Soon after his return to Cape Town he married, and now has four grown-up children.