Andrew verster biography

Andrew Verster (1937-2020) was a painter, scenic designer, a writer of short stories, articles and radio plays.

Biography

Born Andrew Clement Verster in Johannesburg on 15 June, 1937.

He trained as an artist in the UK, obtaining a National Diploma in Design (1959) from the Camberwell College of Art, London, and an Art Teacher’s Diploma (1960) from Reading University. He returned to settle in Durban, where he began as a lecturer at the University of Durban Westville (then University College, Durban) and the Natal Technikon, remaining there until 1976, when he gave up teaching to become a full-time painter.

He went on to have a total of over fifty solo exhibitions, and is represented in many major public and private collections, and has been awarded two retrospective exhibitions organized by the Durban Art Gallery. Numerous public and private commissions, including sculpture and tapestry for the Reserve Bank Durban, art works Durban Hilton, tapestries and a mura