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HANLIE
BOSCH - ARTIST
Hanlie Bosch’s work amply expresses her parallel interest in the mediums
of both clay and painting. Even though she shares a studio and gallery
with her husband, ceramist Anton Bosch, her art is distinctively
different with a style and approach uniquely her own.
Apart from sensitively and colourfully decorated plates and platters,
Hanlie’s ceramics comprise mostly hand-built pieces and sculptures. She
is well-known for her expressive, animated clay figurines of dancers and
gymnasts, for contemplative, compelling clay heads with other-wordly
expressions and cats with a sphinx-like quality.
Hanlie’s ability to reveal through faces and figures a depth of meaning
finds expression in ceramic wall-hung, pipe-figurines. These highly
tactile and decorative pipe ‘couples’ and pipe ‘families’ are at the
same time humorous and haunting.
Her watercolours and oil paintings are characterised by fresh, quick
brushwork and vivid colour. The main theme of her work is ‘faces,
figures and animals in space.’
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