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… Cecil Edwin Frans Skotnes was born on 1st June in 1926 in East London. Skotnes served in the South African Forces in Italy. Before … he studied drawing under Heinrich Steiner in Florence. Skotnes 1946 he studied at the Technikon Witwatersrand and … Art Gallery.| http://www.museums.org.za/sang/exhib/skotnes/ …

… over 4 years between 1953 and 1957. At the Centre, Cecil Skotnes , the Recreation Officer of the Johannesburg city … in Kumalo’s work. Between the years 1958 to 1960, Skotnes arranged for Kumalo to build his sculptural works by … Kumalo got his first of the many commissions through Skotnes to decorate a church near Kroonstad in the Free State …

… in 1953. Kumalo began his career studying under Cecil Skotnes at Polly Street, and later working alongside him as a teacher. His potential and dedication led Skotnes to arrange for him to work with, and learn from, the … School moved to the Jubilee Centre, where he replaced Skotnes as senior art instructor, a post he held from 1960 to …

… sculpting and graphics techniques. In 1977, Holo met Cecil Skotnes, who had been the director of the Polly Street Art … an epicentre of art as a struggle against apartheid. Skotnes therefore encouraged Patrick and his brother Sydney … offered at this art centre were glass blowing and pottery. Skotnes visited and mentored the project, despite the risks …

… segregated settlements. Legae then studied with Cecil Skotnes and Sydney Kumalo at the Jubilee Art Centre from 1960 … in 1965 when he took over Kumalo’s post as assistant to Skotnes. Legae received a scholarship from the US-SA … acknowledges that he was greatly influenced by both Cecil Skotnes and Sydney Kumalo. Both these teachers introduced and …

… gourds for lampshade bases. He was given guidance by Cecil Skotnes and Bill Ainslie. In 1974 he travelled to the USA, …

… as a cook in a hotel. During 1959 he studied with Cecil Skotnes and Sydney Kumalo at Polly Street. He exhibited for a …

… Matsoso studied at the Jubilee Art Centre under Cecil Skotnes, Sydney Kumalo, Bill Hart and Ezrom Legae. In 1972 he …

… although in 1964 he studied for a few months under Cecil Skotnes at Jubilee Art Centre and in 1965 and 1966 he painted …

… originally trained as a carpenter. He studied under Cecil Skotnes at Polly Street Art Centre and later under George …

… in 1941. At age twenty he studied art under Cecil Skotnes and Ephraim Ngatane at the Polly Street Art Centre . …

… Carlo Sdoya and Sidney Goldblatt , and studied with Cecil Skotnes at the Polly Street Recreation Centre from 1953 to … in 1958, and had five children with her. As a student of Skotnes, Sihlali departed from the instructor’s approach of …

… to Johannesburg in 1962 he studied privately with Cecil Skotnes and became a decorator of lamp bases at the Artlite …

… and Coronationville. In 1957 he studied under Cecil Skotnes at Poly Street Art Center and later was a pupil of …

… artists such as Ephraim Ngatane , Ezrom Legae , Cecil Skotnes and Bill Hart encouraged his work. A year after first …

… painting at the Centre between 1952 and 1954, under Cecil Skotnes. His experience of the shantytowns and townships of …