Profile A painter of urban scenes, landscape, human figures. Works in oil ,gouache, 1924 number of painting on District Six Cape Town and Sophiatown Jhb. Studies Brother Roger Castle of St.Peters School, Rosettenville, JHb. I'Academie de la Grande Chaumiere studios in Paris. A school teacher , trained at the Diocesan Teachers Training Collage Pietersburg. Lived and works in France    References: David Lewis The Naked Eye, African Art ,Cape Town,  Contemporary African Art ,SESA,BSAK,SA Art Oxford Companion to 20C Art.  SSAP AASA Echoes of African Art. Everald Read, "The Dictionary of South African Painters and Sculptors"

Exhibitions Participated in group exhibitions in SA Zimbabwe and France from 1939.First solo exh. in SA Europe, Senegal, and  USA 1940.1948 exh. Tate Gallery London, 1965 Piccadilly Gallery London, 1986 Alliance Francaise, Pretoria  Historical Perspective of Black Art in SA, Europe and USA  Collections : Jhb. Art Gallery, Pretoria Art Museum, University of Fort Hare, University of South Africa, Sandton Municipal Collection, SA National Gallery, Cape Town, University of the Witwatersrand, William Humphreys Art Gallery, Kimberley