Deon Lemmer

Deon Lemmer is a South-African artist who grew up in KwaZulu, Natal. He obtained a Master’s Degree in Fine Art from the University of Natal at Pietermaritzburg. He is a gifted teacher and taught Art at various institutions including the Vaal University of Technology in Vanderbijlpark, Gauteng Province. After eleven years there health concerns required that he change his lifestyle and seek a simpler, stress-free environment. He moved to a small farming town near the Eastern Cape coast. Alexandria is 100 km north east of Port Elizabeth. He still had a few private students until hospitalization, surgery and radiation because of a brain tumour two years ago required him to give up what he considered his first love: teaching. He calls this ‘just one of many beneficial interventions by God in my life’ and says: ‘Enter Deon, the sixty-year-old-greenhorn-fulltime (energy permitting) artist. I had my first solo show last year, and have another one in April this year. I've done almost 60 new paintings but have no idea which to select.’