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.
“While I paint I am each moment in the act of painting; at the same time I allow myself to realize that the moment is inside me”.