Current Exhibition

The exhibition will run from the 15th of MAy to the 19th of June 2021

The gallery will be open on Wednesday – Friday 10h00 – 17h00; Saturday from 10h00 – 14h00; Tuesday by appointment only

Please contact us info@gallery2.co.za for any further information.

This exhibition is a showcase of oil paintings and watercolour paintings made over a period of 10 years. 

Bruce Backhouse is a landscape painter who lives in Johannesburg. Bruce started out as a fine art student at Rhodes University under Brian Bradshaw, then enjoyed a successful 25-year career in advertising as an art director and creative director. He spent eight years managing Image Bank South Africa before becoming a full-time artist in 2004.

Throughout his career, Bruce has immersed himself in the vast arid interior of South Africa – the Great Karoo and the Kalahari. His landscape paintings are the consequence of his intense visceral relationship with uninhabited aridity devoid of human manipulation.

Preferring to work on location, never from photographs, he is a firm believer in the subconscious development of the artists mark with “time in the saddle”.

This body of work, in watercolours and oils, stretches back over countless trips to the Great Karoo over the last 10 years.