Roelof Rossouw's Life Story
Roelof was born in 1957, and grew up in Benoni, near Johannesburg. A painter of figures, city and landscapes, street scenes, boats and harbours, architecture, parks and gardens. Works mainly in oils, but also in mixed media and collage.
Rossouw has travelled widely and has visited Europe, The British Isles, Middle East, USA, Singapore, Australia, Canada, Zanzibar and The Caribbean (Painting vacations in Italy, France, Ukraine and USA)
PROFILE
1979-1981
Studied at the Johannesburg School of Art gaining a National Diploma in Art and Design
1982-1990
Employed by the Medical University of Southern Africa as graphic artist and medical illustrator
1992
Started painting seriously on a daily basis
2001
Moved to Robertson, Western Cape Province
EXHIBITIONS
1988-2024
A total of 50 solo exhibitions at top galleries in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Cheltenham UK
1991-2007
Numerous group exhibitions in South Africa, London, Cheltenham, Glasgow, Jersey, Galway, Armagh (N. Ireland) San Francisco and Miami
1999
Three-man exhibition at the Gatehouse Gallery, Glasgow
1988-2010
A total of 34 solo exhibitions at top galleries in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Cheltenham UK and Montreal, Canada
2012
Rustic Beauty of the Cape, a solo exhibition at The Cape Gallery Social Synergy, group exhibition at The Cape Gallery
2014
Constantia Grace, a solo exhibition at The Cape Gallery 2013 People at places of the Cape, a solo exhibition at The Cape Gallery
2015
Four Seasons, a solo exhibition at The Cape Gallery
2016
Sights of Cape Town, a solo exhibition at The Cape Gallery Review, group exhibition at The Cape Gallery
2017
Summer Salon exhibition at The Cape Gallery
REPRESENTED
The Sage Group; Anglo-Vaal; Mount Grace Hotel, Magaliesburg; The Woodburn Mann Art Collection; Rupert International; The Pretoria Art Museum; Clint Eastwood and many private collections in South Africa and throughout the world
AWARDS
2001
First prize - Front Cover Competition for Eric Bolsmann's book on Pretoria.
American Art Awards
Roelof is a multiple annual winner at the American Art Awards since 2014
"One of the World’s Best Living Artists in the category: Human Impressionism"-According to the American Art Awards and judged by 25 of the top galleries in the USA.
Category 21: ‘’Human Impressionism’’
2014 - First, second and third place
2016 – 3rd place
2017 – 3rd tie
2018 – 4th place
2019 – 1st place and 3rd tie
2020 - 2nd place tie
2021 – 4th place tie
2022 - 2nd place tie
2024 - 1st place
Category 22: Landscape Impressionists
2024 – 5th place
Category 23: Still Life (Interior)
2020 – 1st place
2023 - 1st place
2024 - 2nd place tie
Category 36: Landscape with Life
2024 – 1st place
Category 39: Self-Portraits
2024 – 3rd place tie
REFERENCES
ART FAIRS INTERNATIONAL VOL 19 SUMMER 2012 pg 25
PRETORIA Artist Impressions 1857-2001 by Eric Bolsman
THE ARTISTS OF THE WATERBERG by Sas Kloppers
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Artist: ROELOF ROSSOUW
Title: Cape Town the Beautiful City
Size: 91 x 122 cm
Media: Oil on canvas
ID:
27295
Price: R 65 000
ART COLLECTORS CHOICE AWARDS
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INVICTUS ARTWORK
Early in 2009 a film agency walked into the Cape Gallery in Cape Town and hired three of Rossouw’s oil paintings. These South African landscapes featured as props in Clint Eastwood’s movie ‘’Invictus’’.
When director Clint Eastwood arrived on the set and saw the paintings, he was so impressed that he decided to buy two of the paintings for his personal collection.


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