Adriaan Boshoff Adriaan Boshoff was a true impressionist, a man who made hundreds of sketches before embarking on his paintings. It was this dedication to perfection, coupled with a rare talent and creative ability, that catapults Boshoff into the forefront of South African artists. He wasn't always so enjoyed. There were times in his earlier life, recalls his daughter, Louise Boshoff, when he ceaselessly traveled from town to town to try to accommodate his churning need to "move on and discover something new". For the last few years till he passed away this year Boshoff worked in a new studio built for him at his daughter's rural home near Hartebeespoort Dam. He was 72 years old, a man who has embraced Christianity with all its tenets and strictures. His faith seemed to have helped him discover the inner peace that had so eluded him in his early years-and it is this peace that the art lover sees in the maturity, the grace and, indeed, the serenity of his work. Boshoff was first and always a South African and some of his most memorable works are landscapes depicting the veld with cattle crazing. They have about them the epitome of that elusive spirit that makes South African émigrés long for home and dream of sun-baked days on the stubby veld.
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