Enver Larney has seen just about all that life has to offer. Born in Rondebosch, the suburb where the Newlands cricket ground is located
Enver Larney paints a section of the Newlands ground in Cape Town yesterday
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Enver Larney has seen just about all that life has to offer. Born in Rondebosch, the suburb where the Newlands cricket ground is located, Larney was exiled from his beloved home country in 1972 for being part of the African National Congress, the party that brought Nelson Mandela to power in 1994, after the end of apartheid.
Larney, who has lived in different parts of the world since he was forced to leave the motherland, now calls Australia home, where he is an award-winning film-maker. Larney, who has had more than 50 individual showings of his art around the world, is in Newlands to produce an impressionist landscape of the ground that will go under the hammer starting at Rand 45,000 (approx R2.25 lakh).
In the spirit of the masters of the impressionist movement that began in France in 1872, from the likes of Monet and Van Gogh to Sisley, Larney finishes an oil on canvas work in one sitting. Larney has returned to South Africa several times, having promised Mandela that he would use art to unify, something he regards as "unfinished business."
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