Wessel Marais - Fishing boat

 Wessel Marais was born in 1935 in the small town of Magaliesburg. Before his school-going age, his father, a postmaster, was transferred to Welverdient, a village near Potchefstroom, where Wessel grew up on a plot amongst the white, pink and crimson cosmos. It was here, at the age of five, that he was introduced to drawing by his older friend Simon, the son of a farm-worker. They drew with sticks in the sand, and their drawings were mainly of trains, which Wessel used to draw upside down.



Wessel died on 03 April 2009. He was quoted to have said that one lifetime is not enough to learn everything there is to know about art.