MARIANNE SADDINGTON
Acrylic and oil on board 31 x 22 cm - paintings of McGregor & environs - on exhibit at Mulberry Studio, McGregor
CURRICULUM VITAE
1949 Born Durban South Africa
1966 Matriculated – St. Cyprians School, Cape Town
1967 SA National Anatomy Examination (distinction)
1969 Diploma in Graphic Design – Cape Technical College
1984 Bachelor of Social Science (distinction in psychology) – University of Cape Town
1985 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Psychology – University of Cape Town
2003 Certificate in Calligraphy – Roehampton College, London
Work and ExperienceGraphic design: In house – Silk-screening, advertising, fashion designFreelance – specializing in logos, lettering, calligraphy, illustrating books and magazinesTeaching: calligraphy; paper-making; book-binding and book-arts;decorative papers; creativity; personal growth; counselling and stress management. PublicationsMaking your Own Paper (Struikhof South Africa 1990; New Holland UK 1991, 1993; Storey Communications USA 1992; National Book Distributors Australia 1993)
Group exhibitions
1986 Calligraphy with Cape Friends of Calligraphy (CFC) at Frank Joubert Art Centre
1987 Calligraphy with CFC at Frank Joubert Art Centre
1991 Calligraphy and Papermaking at Annexe of National Gallery, Cape Town
1993 Multi-craft exhibition at Cultural History Museum, Cape Town
1993 Embroidery exhibition at Vineyard Hotel, Cape Town
1994 National Peace Exhibition; selected work from calligraphy societies around South Africa, toured the country
1997 Calligraphy with CFC at Hiddingh Hall Campus, University of Cape Town
Solo exhibitions
1988 Paper-making exhibition at University of Cape Town (UCT)
1990 Paper-making exhibition at UCT
1996 Book-arts exhibition at UCT
1997 Book-arts exhibition at Hiddingh Hall Campus, UCT
1998 Book-arts exhibition at UCT
Awards
1994 Award for best multi-media calligraphic peace on National Peace Exhibition
Additional workshops and training:
Attended 4 intensive courses in book-binding with Johan Maree of the Book Restoration Unit, UCT
Attended 5 International Calligraphy conferences, in USA and UK, focussing on brush lettering, collage, monoprints, book-arts and Japanese calligraphy
Learned Japanese paper-making in USA, Taiwan and Japan
Workshops in botanical illustration, papier mâché and Chinese brush painting
Courses with local artists (Jill Trappler, Barbara Pitt, Paul Birchall, Ryno Swart, Dale Elliott and others)
Marianne has been inspired by the work of Vincent van Gogh, Impressionism, Fauvism, Wassily Kandinsky, Marc Chagall, Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, collages of Robert Rauschenberg, and the wild free expressiveness of the Eastern Block countries. She has travelled the world extensively, viewing many of the art works in the original.
In 1998, she and her husband Tony left the bustle of the city to move to Wellington. Then in 2003, Tony retired from the university and they moved to the quiet country village of McGregor, where she spends her time gardening, making leather-wrapped journals for sale in a local shop and through art classes in Cape Town, teaching occasional calligraphy and book-binding classes and painting the quaint cottages and fields in the area, in bright, clear colours.
Acrylic and oil on board 31 x 22 cm - paintings of McGregor & environs - on exhibit at Mulberry Studio, McGregor
CURRICULUM VITAE
1949 Born Durban South Africa
1966 Matriculated – St. Cyprians School, Cape Town
1967 SA National Anatomy Examination (distinction)
1969 Diploma in Graphic Design – Cape Technical College
1984 Bachelor of Social Science (distinction in psychology) – University of Cape Town
1985 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Psychology – University of Cape Town
2003 Certificate in Calligraphy – Roehampton College, London
Work and ExperienceGraphic design: In house – Silk-screening, advertising, fashion designFreelance – specializing in logos, lettering, calligraphy, illustrating books and magazinesTeaching: calligraphy; paper-making; book-binding and book-arts;decorative papers; creativity; personal growth; counselling and stress management. PublicationsMaking your Own Paper (Struikhof South Africa 1990; New Holland UK 1991, 1993; Storey Communications USA 1992; National Book Distributors Australia 1993)
Group exhibitions
1986 Calligraphy with Cape Friends of Calligraphy (CFC) at Frank Joubert Art Centre
1987 Calligraphy with CFC at Frank Joubert Art Centre
1991 Calligraphy and Papermaking at Annexe of National Gallery, Cape Town
1993 Multi-craft exhibition at Cultural History Museum, Cape Town
1993 Embroidery exhibition at Vineyard Hotel, Cape Town
1994 National Peace Exhibition; selected work from calligraphy societies around South Africa, toured the country
1997 Calligraphy with CFC at Hiddingh Hall Campus, University of Cape Town
Solo exhibitions
1988 Paper-making exhibition at University of Cape Town (UCT)
1990 Paper-making exhibition at UCT
1996 Book-arts exhibition at UCT
1997 Book-arts exhibition at Hiddingh Hall Campus, UCT
1998 Book-arts exhibition at UCT
Awards
1994 Award for best multi-media calligraphic peace on National Peace Exhibition
Additional workshops and training:
Attended 4 intensive courses in book-binding with Johan Maree of the Book Restoration Unit, UCT
Attended 5 International Calligraphy conferences, in USA and UK, focussing on brush lettering, collage, monoprints, book-arts and Japanese calligraphy
Learned Japanese paper-making in USA, Taiwan and Japan
Workshops in botanical illustration, papier mâché and Chinese brush painting
Courses with local artists (Jill Trappler, Barbara Pitt, Paul Birchall, Ryno Swart, Dale Elliott and others)
Marianne has been inspired by the work of Vincent van Gogh, Impressionism, Fauvism, Wassily Kandinsky, Marc Chagall, Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, collages of Robert Rauschenberg, and the wild free expressiveness of the Eastern Block countries. She has travelled the world extensively, viewing many of the art works in the original.
In 1998, she and her husband Tony left the bustle of the city to move to Wellington. Then in 2003, Tony retired from the university and they moved to the quiet country village of McGregor, where she spends her time gardening, making leather-wrapped journals for sale in a local shop and through art classes in Cape Town, teaching occasional calligraphy and book-binding classes and painting the quaint cottages and fields in the area, in bright, clear colours.
Church spire and rooftops, McGregor
