Tugwell

Christopher Tugwell, is a South African painter known for his poetic depictions of South African veldt landscapes. Tugwell often chooses viewpoints which have a distant horizon line, creating an all-encompassing landscape filled as much with sky as land. “The subtle and poetic moods of nature interest me more than the dramatic and highly colorful,” the artist has said, which is reflected in his Impressionistic style. Born in 1938 in Durban, South Africa, he is largely self-taught with the exception of private lessons he received growing up. At the age of 20, the artist moved to Johannesburg to pursue his career as a painter, and soon after opened his own gallery in Pretoria. Tugwell lives and works in Pretoria, South Africa.