Wendy Vincent

A master painter and printmaker, Wendy Vincent was a pioneer in South Africa in the field of stone and lithography. From 1958 -1971 she studied at the Durban and Witwatersrand Technikons before continuing her training in New York and Paris. Spending her childhood on a farm, she drew and planted outdoors from the age of 10.

Her paintings are about nature. Her work has been exhibited throughout South Africa, in Europe, Australia and the UK. In the US, Vincent’s work is part of public collections in the Philadelphia U.S.A Museum, the New York Library and the Washington, S.A. Embassy Collection. Prestigious publications that have reproduced Vincent’s work include Esmé Berman’s Art and the Artists of South Africa, Freda Harmsen’s Looking at South African Art and the 1982 Engravings for De Luxe Edition of Olive Schreiner’s The Hunter.

For the past 25 years, Vincent has retreated from the public art scene and devoted herself to creating a sprawling indigenous rock garden with her life partner, artist, Geoffrey Armstrong, while continuing to