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1927 Williston, Cape Providence, South Africa - 2015 Vredehoek, Cape Town, South Africa. Known for: Abstract seascape, landscape, garden scenes and still life painting.
The following text is from The Chance Muse blog site, and was written January 2013 by a goddaughter of Olivia Scholnick. An old woman lies ill in a Cape Town nursing home - but to call her 'old'... Read full biography
The following text is from The Chance Muse blog site, and was written January 2013 by a goddaughter of Olivia Scholnick. An old woman lies ill in a Cape Town nursing home - but to call her 'old' seems misguided. Her spirit is young and her work is as fresh and startling as ever. She dreams of... Read full biography
The following text is from The Chance Muse blog site, and was written January 2013 by a goddaughter of Olivia Scholnick. An old woman lies ill in a Cape Town nursing home - but to call her 'old' seems misguided. Her spirit is young and her work is as fresh and startling as ever. She dreams of colours and an endless vista, of perfect fruit and the forms of flowers, of blue and gold and the sea and the sky. A painter, a practical woman, self-deprecating and generous, beautiful still, with long... Read full biography
The following text is from The Chance Muse blog site, and was written January 2013 by a goddaughter of Olivia Scholnick. An old woman lies ill in a Cape Town nursing home - but to call her 'old' seems misguided. Her spirit is young and her work is as fresh and startling as ever. She dreams of colours and an endless vista, of perfect fruit and the forms of flowers, of blue and gold and the sea and the sky. A painter, a practical woman, self-deprecating and generous, beautiful still, with long hair piled on her head and amazing piercing eyes, of Afrikaans birth and Jewish conversion, an intellect, an aesthete, but never pretentious or obscure, Olivia Scholnick or Olive, as we all know her, is one of South Africa's best landscape and still... Read full biography
The following text is from The Chance Muse blog site, and was written January 2013 by a goddaughter of Olivia Scholnick. An old woman lies ill in a Cape Town nursing home - but to call her 'old' seems misguided. Her spirit is young and her work is as fresh and startling as ever. She dreams of colours and an endless vista, of perfect fruit and the forms of flowers, of blue and gold and the sea and the sky. A painter, a practical woman, self-deprecating and generous, beautiful still, with long hair piled on her head and amazing piercing eyes, of Afrikaans birth and Jewish conversion, an intellect, an aesthete, but never pretentious or obscure, Olivia Scholnick or Olive, as we all know her, is one of South Africa's best landscape and still life painters. This is a celebration of her Life & Art. Born in 1927, in Williston, Cape Province, after obta... Read full biography
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