b. 1996
“Through simple, honest elements like mark-making, colour and lines I make the viewer more human by letting them feel more than they allow through their inhibitions.”
Reece Swanepoel is an emerging contemporary artist in South Africa. He has an extraordinary eye for aesthetics and an expressive methodology, and his moody paintings capture a dark atmosphere.
The themes of melancholy and chaos reoccur in his work. His portraits often portray the anguished faces behind the masks of ordinary people, and he strives to captures the chaos of the world in his works.
Reece’s work has gained global acclaim, and his art has been bought by collectors from USA to Tokyo, Norway and South Africa, where his work is much sought after.
