Notes

"John Kramer began to record small town shops, corner cafes, bioscopes and general dealer stores with his camera in the early 1970s, fearing that they might soon disappear. The supermarket was coming to town. Television was about to make its presence felt. He wanted to hold onto the memory. Over a forty-year period he has visited many towns and dorps in search of new material to paint. By now many of the buildings have disappeared or been altered or replaced with branded stores. Concentrating on light and shadow, tonal values, verticals and horizontals and by eliminating any presence of living beings from his paintings, he has created a body of works that is uniquely South African."^1.

^1. Penny Dobbie (2014) John Kramer, Cape Town: Penny Dobbie Gallery, back cover.