Rudd’s hosts its Catalogue Auction Sale of Fine Antique Furniture, South African and European Art,Decorative Art & Collectables on Tuesday 13th May at 5pm at 87 Bree Street, Cape Town

Viewing commences on Friday 9th May. The illustrated Catalogue may be viewed on www.rudds.co.za from the 1st May. Details available from Rudd’s 021 426 0384

SA Artists include: Gavin J G F Younge, Gail D Catlin, Marie Vermeulen Breedt, Errol E Boyley, Christopher Tugwell, Titta Fasciotti, Hennie Griesel, Henry J Dykman, Carl A Buchner, Roth Theys, Christo Coetzee, Frans M Claerhout, Kenneth Bakker, Walter W Battiss, Sydney Taylor, Kobus Louw, Jacob J Pierneef, Gabriel de Jongh, Barbara E H Tyrell, Molly M Hathorn, Dorothy E S Humphris( Dorelle), Robert Broadley, Tyronne E Appollis, Norman C Catherine, Eric Wale, Waalko Dingemans, Nils S Severin, Andrew C Verster, and Otto Klar.

Anna-Louise Felstead is a London based reportage artist and illustrator who draws and paints on location. Her work focuses on people within environments, ranging from day to day images of characters drinking coffee in Soho, to models being hastily prepared for the catwalks at London Fashion Week. She is inspired by unusual places and issue-based subjects and enjoys putting herself in situations where she wouldn’t normally be. Previous projects have included stints aboard HMS Cornwall and HMS Illustrious with the Royal Navy, where Anna-Louise documented scenes from a military life at sea which resulted in two solo exhibitions. Since graduating from The Royal College of Art in 2003 she has had her work published in many magazines and exhibited in various group and solo shows. Anna-Louise always captures something of the Naïve in the many and varied scenes she paints, often in situations normally documented by photographers. She travels the world in order to find new inspiration and has already documented the Cartier polo in St.Moritz and Dubai this year. Her recent trip to Cape Town enabled her to paint landscapes in Stellenbosch, Franschook and Kirstenbosch as well as images of people dining in restaurants in Camps Bay. She paints with ink on paper and her style varies between black and white line drawings to fully coloured paintings.

Graham Springer has lived and worked in the wilderness of Northern Botswana since 2001, working mostly as a film-maker and photographer. Filming and Photographing in this incredible place allows him to combine a strong creative drive with a love of this special African wilderness.

“Creative photography has captivated me since I was a young boy. I try not to take ’standard wildlife’ photographs. I try instead to create interesting and creative images that have artistic photographic credibility, independent of subject matter. I try also, as much as one ever can, to capture the ineffable spirit of the wilderness in which I live. The result, I hope, is a collection of engaging images that convey my love for this African wilderness and that they inspire some sense of spirit of place in those that see them.”

Graham’s images are intended as fine art prints. All photographs are shot on film (35mm and 645 medium format) and then scanned using a state of the art high resolution scanner. A certain amount of mandatory digital work on the images is required after scanning but other than that, and careful cropping and colour tinting, the images are manipulated as little as possible. The images are then printed onto a heavy, finely textured cotton based art paper using an inkjet printer with special pigment inks. The only reason the images are digitised at all is because of the creative options inkjet printing processes provide. They are still however very much original photographic images.

ArtVault is proud to present his works please have a look at Graham’s collection

The Art Place presents Unframed Gems, an exhibition of works ready to be framed to suit your own taste - a great option if you are redecorating. Until April 12 at the Art Place, 144 Milner Ave, Roosevelt Park. For details call 011 888 9120.

ArtVault is proud to present our latest public gallery generously allowed by Nampak to be displayed.The collection displays a number of great South African artist including Peter Bonney, Willem Boshoff, JH Pierneef, John Meyer and Velaphi Mzimba to name a few . Please take time to browse the collection and feel free to leave your comments below.

Click here to view the Nampak collection

ArtVault will continue to add a number of public collections for your viewing pleasure. If you are part of a collection whether it is private, corporate or an institution you feel others would enjoy please contact us. We will be happy to digitise and document the collection for you and give you all the tools to manage that collection.