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STELLA SHAWZIN  (South African)

“Emerging Forms”

Ink & Watercolour.

21 ½” x 12 ¼”. Signed                                                                                               IMAGE

 

 

 

Stella Shawzin was born in Transvaal, South Africa.  She studied singing, dancing and acting from a young age and appeared in films and on stage in England.   She studied painting in London under Martin Block, the Colourist.  She also attended the 57th Street Art Students League of New York where she studied anatomy under George Bridgeman and painting under Frank Vincent DuMond and Yasuo Kuniyoshi.  She also attended the Pratt Institute Workshop for Artists where she studied graphics. She used the local ruffians in Cape Town as her models and also Herrero and Mponga tribes.  She would always paint her models from different sides producing several versions of the same sitter.  She would then choose the best one and reject the others. She was also interested in lithography and engraving and she worked with Michael Ponce de Leon and Anthony Harrison’s studio.  She had her own foundry in Constantia, Cape Town and was assisted by Simon Monakali.  She used Carlo Nicoli’s studio in Italy when working on very large sculptures. 

 

 

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