Notes

Carola Brotherton trained under Jack and Jane Heath at the University of Natal, before becoming a friend and colleague in the Department in the late 1960s. Carola and Jane became particularly close, and with their old, customized Land Rover, made numerous sketching and painting trips into the then wilder parts of Natal. Neither artist moved too far away from natural representation, but on occasion each pursued a gentle, selective and decorative abstraction. Both The Stream (Lot V) and Midlands Landscape (Lot VI) catch the artists in this mood: autumn leaves caught on a stream’s surface, and a dry, dusky Midlands view are paraphrased using overlapping, geometric  segments of earthy colours, all arranged according to a flat, unpredictable, sophisticated pattern.

Exhibited

South African Association of Arts, Pretoria, Jane Heath and Carola Brotherton, 14 August 1972 - 26 August 1972.

Literature

Brendan Bell and Bryony Clark (eds.) (2016) Building History: Drawings and prints of historic buildings in Pietermaritzburg created during the 1960s by Carola Brotherton, Pietermaritzburg: Tatham Art Gallery. Illustrated in colour on page 12.