Where ART Lives Magazine Volume 4 Number 4 | Page 69

international artists
Yvette Beneke
south africa
Yvette was born in 1969 and grew up in Bloemfontein. She studied Architecture and after
her studies moved to Cape Town where she started working as Architect in Training. Yvette
worked in the profession for 10 years, renovating old houses and restoring them to their
formy beauty. After her children were born she found the demands of the architectural and
building industry too much and decided to take up her art again. She enrolled in art classes
and quickly discovered her love for the palette knife. A slight obsession got hold of her and
for about two years she only focused on mastering this technique.
She only works in oils and her themes are all very feminine and etherial. “As a person I
love all things in nature, especially flowers and the humble little birds. I have a little
vegetable garden which is surrounded with my roses which I tend to as if precious little
gems. These roses form the subjects of most of my paintings, together with my collection of
pots that I have accumilated over the past 30 years. Some over a 100 years old.”
Yvette currently resides with her family in Durbanville, the heart of the wine farms of the
Western Cape, South Africa.
“I am a very spiritual person, am a vegetarian and hope that my love for life and all things
living show in my work and will touch a part of your soul and life as well.”
Exhibitions
2015 Joint exhibition with Marie Theron, Grotto Beach
2016 Solo exhibition Saxonwold Arts Events Gallery
2017 Group exhibition at Beach Gallery, Melkbosstrand
2017 Joint exhibition at The Showroom Art Gallery, with Tony de Freitas, Pretoria.
2018 Solo exhibition, Johann van Heerden Art, Pretoria.
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