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Marlise Keith is situated in Cape Town and draws primarily in acrylic inks on paper and board. Her work was described by critic Melvyn Minnaar of the Cape Times (26 June 2008) as " The glorious and mysterious things of [a] fleeting world [is] what Marlise Keith uses to define her astonishing individual, complicated visual tales. An artist with a...brooding, vivid original voice". Keith studied BA Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria which was completed in 1995 and completed her Master's Degree in Fine arts at the University of Stellenbosch in 2000. To keep the wolf from the door, she taught art at high school level and later was head of the Production Design Department at AFDA, a tertiary film school before finally committing to do art full time in 2006. She has participated in various group shows nationally and abroad. Her first solo show was in 2000. Keith's works can be found in various collections in South Africa, America, Australia, Britain, France, Germany and Sweden. She has participated in several competitions, was a top ten finalist in the Absa L'Atelier in 2007 and won the Vuleka (means "to open doors" in Xhosa) in 2006. The prize was a trip to Paris which she visited in July and August 2007.Marlise offers courses for beginner, intermediate and advanced drawing and painting. The courses incorporate everything from the basic principles of drawing and painting and conceptualisation to advanced use of materials. |