Geraldine Robarts nee Geraldine Bannister
Country: Kenya/UK/Republic of South Africa
Style: Abstract Colorism
Medium: Oil on Canvas/Wood/Card
Fun Fact: Born as Geraldine Bannister in London in 1939, she was shipped out to relatives in South Africa during the Blitz. Raised to adulthood there, she studied fine arts at the University of Witwaterstrand and later received an M.A. in education from the University of Nairobi.
She became a Bahá'í at the age of 19, a step which without doubt has been one of the major influences on her life. “I had no religious upbringing, but I searched and searched and searched,” she said, describing how as a young woman she visited virtually every church in Johannesburg. “I knew there was a God.”
Quote: “Painting for me definitely is worship,” she says. “The spirit and subject and inspiration of my paintings are all given to me, I believe, by God. I feel I draw closer to God when I am painting. I feel that tremendous sense of love, of being a hollow reed, through which the power of God is flowing.”
Works
1. African Soul
2. Spirits of Africa
3. Maasais in Mombasa 1
4. Entertainment
5. Untitled
6. Untitled
7. Untitled
8. Relaxing Maasai
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