Gallery

Bushman rock art across the seven seas, attests to palaeolithic painters navigating the diaphanous rock surface with articulate paintbrushes, encountering and describing revelations along the way. The Oldest Masters, they are the patriarchs of eons of art history, and creators of the longest-surviving visual art in the world.

The Bushman’s approach to rock art, though veiled in mystery, is the common inheritance of domesticated peoples who fell from Eden, whose art still reflects a memory of Paradise. With paintbrush, chisel or hand, humans continue to express and commune with the divine through visual creations. And so Art History tells us a remarkable, elliptical story of people’s experience in and of the world. It is the oldest form of documented History, apparently.

With so many strata of art gems embedded in the veiled recesses of magical time, your point of entry into the art world can only ever be right now! Consider: why are the world’s major art movements, though so different from each other, all special in their own way? The answer is simple but deep: History is always new!

Visual Artists

  1. Frederik van Bart
  2. Etienne van Bart
  3. Akanyang Moloi
  4. Lethlogonolo Mothlaping
  5. Katlego Mohapi
  6. Onnalena Sharon Kedige
  7. Tshireletso X

1. FREDERIK VAN BART

2. ETIENNE VAN BART

The Moving Bushman (2026; Acrylic on masonite; collaborative ”rock wall” with Antoinette Nel and students at Yzerfontein Academy)

The Dorpshuys (2026; Engraving – acrylic and pastel on A4 paper; On exhibition at The Old Village Art Gallery, Citrusdal)

Mushroom Magic (2025) (Mosaic – in collaboration with the Sandveld Art Society – commissioned decoration of a garden bench for Frances and Graeme Williams of Redelinghuys)

Mythaka (2025; Oil on hardboard; A3 size; GIVEN to Frederik van Bart)

Zen made easy: Christopher of Piket-bo-berg (2025; Enamel Paint dripped on paper, A3 size)

3. AKANYANG PATRICK MOLOI

4. LETHLOGONOLO MOTHLAPING

Batswana Lapa (2024) (Charcoal on A3 paper)

5. KATLEGO MOHAPI

6. ONNALENA SHARON KEDIGE

Chagalesque Complementaries (2018) (Acrylic on A3 Paper)

Butterfly (2018) (Acrylic on A3 paper)

6. TSHIRE BUSTA TO

Batswana Lapa (2024) (Charcoal on A3 paper)