Celebrated Gqeberha artist Derrick Erasmus dies

Renowned artist Derrick Erasmus, whose precise and quirky images centred on the theme of masks have been exhibited and sold around the world, has died.

Erasmus, who celebrated his 90th birthday at Art on Target in Gqeberha in September, combined a sense of fun and the precision he learnt as a botanical artist in London in the 1960s and ’70s to produce his distinctive masks...

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