MARINDA COMBRINCK

 Born 1972, Johannesburg, South Africa.

"I choose to work with a variety of subject matter and styles in different mediums on canvas or paper to try and create the best possible translation to my observation. I try to work towards the accuracy of my perception and stay honest in what I leave behind as the artwork." - Marinda Combrinck

Matriculated: Pretoria, Pro Arte School of Art 1990

Fine Art Diploma 1993, Pretoria Technicon now Tshwane University of Technology

Advanced Drawing Course by renowned artist Diane Victor, Stellenbosch 2018

For the past 20 years Combrinck has been a full time fine artist working from her art studio, exhibiting locally and abroad, accepting commissions for both original and commercial paintings for private clients. Marinda’s preferred medium is oil on canvas.

ACHIEVEMENTS & COMMISSIONS 

2015 Private Collection, Mr Valli Moosa

2016 Exhibition, Victoria & Albert Hall, Dublin, Ireland

First Prize, Art on Track Competition 2017 ‘Portrait of my Daughter’

Secondary Art Market Sales:  Strauss & CO, Cape Town &Stephan Welz & Co, Rosebank, ZA 

CNN Short Film on Route 62 Featuring Calitzdorp Artists  2020 – Produced by Michaell Cross

Vuleka  Art Competition Top 40 Finalist 2021, ArtB Gallery,  Bellville, Cape Town

Sanlam Top 40 Portrait Finalist 2021, 2019, 2015 Rust en Vrede Gallery, Durbanville Cape Town

Sanlam Top 100 Portrait Finalist 2019 Assosiation of Visual Arts, Cape Town

Sanlam Top 100 Portrait Finalist 2021 Rupert Museum, Stellenbosch

Top 100 Portrait Finalist 2023 Spier Arts Trust Union House, Cape Town

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

- 'Draaijakkals’  in collaboration with the EWT (Endangered Wildlife Trust) Knysna Fine Art

“Hers is not an art created from a moral high ground. If anything, her portraits are gifts of affection and rites of atonement” Sean O'Toole, Sunday Times, 7 July 2014

- ‘Glamour Girl’ “These beguiling and delicious creations are quite irresistible and are saved from the least hint of whimsy by their sheer size and Combrinck’s painterly skill linked to her sardonic and affectionate postmodern aesthetic.” Trent Read, Knysna Fine Arts 2012

2022 Tricolore,  Group Show, Grand Provence Gallery, Franschhoek

2021 ‘Covid’ Group Show,  MOK Gallery, Murati Wine Estate, Stellenbosch

2021 ‘Reflect’ Group Show, HAAS Collective Gallery, Cape Town

2020‘Wild Wild’ Group Show, Gallery Glen Carlou, Klapmuts Cape Town

2020 ‘A Subtle Skill’ ‘Knysna Fine Art in collaboration with Everard Read, Johannesburg 2020

2020 ‘The Grand V’ Group Show, Rust en Vrede Gallery, Durbanville, Cape Town 2020

2018  Knysna Fine Art, ‘Draaijakkals’ SOLO Exhibition

2018 Pretoria Art Museum, Stuart Trent, Group show

2016 Stellenbosh University Museum 100 Geographies Group Exhibition, Curated by EM Vermeulen

Last Solo Exhibition, 2020: 'Transendence'  Trent Gallery, Pretoria  2020