Pieter Swanepoel

Pieter Swanepoel is a South African-born artist who completed his undergraduate studies in Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria and received his Master in Visual Arts cum laude from the University of South Africa. He worked as a journalist, art critic, photographer and creative director before turning to a career in education in 1994 when he founded the then Roodepoort College Department of Art.
As an educator within the Visual Arts he subsequently taught at a number of esteemed academic institutions. His teaching included a wide variety of subjects, ranging from Graphic Design to Performance Art to Painting, as well as History of Art and Theory of Fine Arts. Since immigrating to New Zealand in 2015 his focus has been on his own art practice. He paints in oils, acrylics as well as in watercolour.   …read more