Art training – classes, primarily with Anton Momberg, sculptor.
M Sc Botany Witwatersrand University
H Dip Lib UNISA

Bridget Randall has had a life-long interest in the arts and has sketched and painted from a young age. She had always enjoyed modelling in clay, but this interest was refined when she started classes part-time with Anton Momberg in 1983.

She started producing bronzes in 1997 and has concentrated on this medium since then, usually working in plasticine or wax and having the pieces cast professionally.  She generally produces pieces less than50cm high, but has also done a number of larger works including a life-sized horse commissioned by Leo Baxter for his polo estate near Plettenberg Bay.  A life-sized sitting warthog was commissioned by the Read Gallery and the edition of six sold out. She has produced 49 different bronzes, chiefly wildlife, but also a number of horses.

Bridget completed her MSc while living with her husband on reserves bordering the Kruger National Park.  They then spent ten years studying seabirds chiefly African Penguins on islands near Port Elizabeth.  When her husband Rod joined the South African National Parks, she began to concentrate more on art.  They now live in Sedgefield where she has her studio.

EXHIBITIONS

Bridget Randall has had work selected for various exhibitions
including EP Art Society Annual Exhibition, annual exhibitions of
various art societies, including an APSA regional exhibition and a
Kenzan Sculpture exhibition. She was invited to exhibit at the
Exhibition “Our Wildlife Heritage” in the Albany Museum for the

1992
Grahamstown Festival. This was as a a two woman
exhibition called “Images of Africa” with Dawn Charteris at the

1991
Grahamstown festival. In addition, Bridget has also been invited to
exhibit at two South African National Parks exhibitions, as well as
various wildlife exhibitions. In 2002 she had a successful exhibition
of bronzes and ceramics at the Knysna Fine Art Gallery.

COLLECTIONS

Bridget Randall’s work is included in various private collections in
South Africa , United States of America, the United Kingdom,
Belgium and Spain

GALLERIES

Galleries where work can be viewed include Everard Read in Johannesburg and Cape Town, the Cape Gallery, Cape Town, 21 on Montagu, George, the Lynn Schaefer Gallery, Knysna, African Art Jewellers, Swakopmund, and Artamain, Hamble, UK.

" I chiefly do bronzes and ceramic sculpture. I concentrate on animals, tending to avoid the big five. Each ceramic sculpture is individually made using sketches and photographs as a basis. I do not aim at total realism but try to capture the spirit of the animal.

With regard to painting, I work in watercolour and ink. The subject matter is usually animals. "