Arthur Edward Cantrell
Born 1917 - 1998 -

South African artist Arthur Cantrell was born in Kalaw, Upper Burma, in 1917. Schooling followed normal English expatriate lines, with Arthur mainly keen to be outdoors and developing his own talent for sculpture, abstract drawing and painting. He was always fond of colour and its juxtaposition in abstraction – similar to a more “organic” Mandarin. Yet Arthur conducted his work, whether it be painting or sculpture, with great simplicity - just as he lived his life.??

It was his prowess as a metalworker and sculptor that kept Arthur in work and funds after he settled in South Africa in 1936. During the war he fought in the North African campaign as a bomb navigator. Afte...