Joan Peeters Karoo Canvasses
CV
Education
1976 - 1979 BAFA Michaelis UCT
1980-1982 MA Fine arts Atelier's 63 Haarlem Holland
Teaching and Tutoring of students
1987 Michaelis
1989 Ruth Prowse
Grants & Awards
1978 - Mc.Iver Scholarship Award
1979 - Michaelis Class Medal
1979 - Michaelis Prize for best composition
1980 - Mc.Iver Scholarship
Exhibitions & Festivals
1979 - Cape Town Biannual
1980 - Group Show Association of Arts Cape Town
1982 - Group Show Atelier's 63 Haarlem Holland
1983 - Solo Show gallery 05T Amsterdam Holland
1985 - Solo Show Gallery Het oog Amsterdam Holland
1986 - National Women Centurary -UCT
1994 - Solo Show Sembach Gallery Houtbay Cape Town
1995 - Group Show Women on South Africa Paarl Cape Town
1996 - Group Show Botega Gallery KKNK Oudtshoorn
1996 - Group Show Sold Cape Town
1996 - Permanent Collection at S.A. National Gallery Cape Town
1997 - Paper Prayer's Exhibition Ottawa Canada
2000 - Solo Show Karoo Landscapes Gallery Karoo Canvasses Barrydale
2001 - Solo Show Myths and Animals
Gallery Karoo Canvasses
2001 - Group Show Winter Exhibition Strydom Gallery George
2002 - Solo Show Klein Karoo from Within Evita se Paron Darling Western Cape
2003 - Solo Show The Myth lies in the Reverence Gallery
Karroo Canvasses Barrydale
2005 - Solo Show About what lies Underneath Gallery Karoo Canvasses Barrydale
2007 - Solo Show Shift Karooltjie Kellers Barrydale
2008 - Solo Show The landscape Unveiled Irma Stern Museum Cape Town
2010 - Group Show Summer Exhibition Strydom Gallery George
2011 - Group Show Casa Labia Cape Town
2013 - Solo Show Mountain and Water Myths Moreson Barrydale
2014 - Earth Marks Moreson Barrydale
2015 - Glacial Pavements #1 Moreson Barrydale
Publications
2008 - Expressing the Karoo weekend Argus review by Veronica Wilkinson
2008 - Magazine Good Taste Publication of Works
Joan Peeters
Born in Santpoort, Holland
Lives & works in Barrydale, South Africa
The artist works and lives in Barrydale in the Klein Karroo. She has received a BAFA degree from Michaelis UCT in 1980 and later an MA in Fine Art at Atlier 63 in Holland in 1982. She lived in Holland for the next 8 years developing her painting skills in one of Amsterdams leading ateliers. Since 2002 she has had 7 solo shows and today her works hangs private collections around the world.
Joan has gained the reputation for her ethereal, post modern realist painting of the Karoo landscape. Her art work reflects muted, subtle colours which reveal the nature and the character of the terrain that is often a dry wilderness yet always richly textured.
Although nature is used as the subject matter, Her art work is not limited to landscapes only. Joan uses the landscape as a stage in which objects are placed or events are unfolded. They become places of reverence.
Although her work expresses all the elements employed by a traditional landscape artist, they also oscillate between clear realism and abstraction.
The volume used to create the composition can either become fractured and float on the surface of the canvas, or become part of the whole.
Her art works have an emotional element that embodies the desert like qualities of the landscapes which she lives in daily.
Other works are also displayed in London, Washington UCT and the New Knowledge Library.
