My life is art and art is my life<\/span>.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\nDekades lank was Josephine du Toit \u2019n be-kende in kunskringe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy hele lewe is skilder. Dit is waaruit ek \u2018n bestaan gemaak het vir meer as vyftig jaar. Dit is waarmee ek my eiendomme gekoop het en my drie kinders se universiteitstudies betaal het. Skilderye was nog altyd my enigste bron van inkomste,\u201d s\u00ea Josephine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maar vir die afgelope drie jaar is Josephine kwas- en kunsloos en afhanklik van die maandelikse Sassa-pensioen. \u201cWeet jy hoe frustrerend is dit? Ek het \u2018n skeppende gees wat kreatief besig wil wees. S\u00f3 het ek nog altyd deur al my lewenskrisisse gekom \u2026 al verwende.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Josephine (nou Engelbrecht) het in die vroe\u00eb sestigs kuns studeer by die toe internasionaal bekende Alfred Krentz Kunsskool in Kaapstad. \u201cHy (Alfred Krentz) het vir my ges\u00ea ek is met kleur in my kop gebore.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In di\u00e9 tyd het Josephine haar man Japie du Toit in Seepunt ontmoet. \u201cEk was halsoorkop verlief en binne tien dae is ons getroud en is ek saam met hom Rhodesi\u00eb toe.\u201d Daar het hulle in Sinoia (nou Chinhoyi) op die plaas Hills and Dales, een van Du Toit se nege plase geboer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit is waar ek as skilder bekend geword het. Standard Bank het my jaarliks genooi na hulle gesogte kunsuitstalling in Harare. Dan was hulle nog so nice om sommer ook van my skilderye te koop.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1980 moes Josephine en haar drie kinders uit Rhodesi\u00eb vlug weens die bosoorlog. \u201cEk het in Hermanus met R40 in my beursie en ons drie klein kindertjies aangekom. Snags wanneer hulle slaap, het ek geskilder. So kon ek vir ons \u2018n klein huisie koop wat ek oor jare afbetaal het met my skilderye wat ek verkoop het.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Josephine het \u2019n ruk later met die eerste van haar Art Snippets galerye begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk\u2019t baie in my lewe getrek. Oral waar ek gebly het, het ek \u2018n Art Snippets oopgemaak en kuns en boeke verkoop. My laaste Art Snippets was by 3 Harbour Road, langs die biblioteek in Hermanus. Daarna was my galerytjies oral in my huise.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Josephine het op verskeie plekke in Suid-Afrika gebly en ook in Namibi\u00eb in Swakopmund, Usakos en Tsumeb, waar sy \u2018n padstalletjie en galery gehad het. Voor sy na Huis Najaar gekom het, het sy op Jeffreysbaai gewoon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy blaai deur haar galery-besoekersboek en wys name van oud-bekendes. \u201cDit was interessante mense wat oor my pad gekom het. Ek het \u2018n vol lewe geniet, ten spyte van baie hartseer.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As gevestigde skilder in Hermanus het sy beweeg in kunstenaarkringe waar sy bekendes ontmoet het soos Irma Stern, Frans Claerhout, Pieter van der Westhuizen en Pieter-Dirk Uys. Sy het ook skouers geskuur met Vladimir Tretchikoff en sy vrou Natalie. \u201cElke keer wat ek hulle by die bioskoop gesien het, het sy met \u2018n boksie Black Magic sjokolade onder haar arm geloop.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vandag het Josephine \u201cnie meer een familie-lid in die hele w\u00eareld oor nie. My kinders is al drie oorlede sonder enige kleinkinders. Al wat ek van my lewe oor het wat na aan my is, is \u2018n paar skilderye.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy blaai deur haar foto-album en wys \u2018n koerantberig oor die plaas waar sy grootgeword het \u2013 Schoongezicht in Dal Josaphat. Dit is waar die Voortrekker Sarel Cilliers gebore is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy pa het in daardie jare in die Tweede W\u00eareldoorlog geveg en my ma moes ons alleen grootmaak in daardie groot ou huis. Dit was moeilike jare. Die tyd wat my die naaste aan die hart l\u00ea, was later jare toe ons Philadelphia toe getrek het.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Haar laaste trek was na Huis Najaar, daar waar sy nou op die sonstoep droom om w\u00e9\u00e9r haar naam \u2013 Jospehine du Toit \u2013 op \u2018n voltooide skildery te verf. Al wat sy nodig het om dit te doen is olieverf, vernis, borde en natuurlik ruimte om kreatief te wees. Die inspirasie is daar, \u201cHier is soveel ou gesigte wat vra om geskilder te word.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mense wat Josephine met haar wens wil help, kan olieverf, kwaste, verfborde en vernis skenk. Dit kan by die UD Express<\/span>-kantoor in Graaff Reinetweg afgegee word. 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