Portrait study
↗South African painter · Pretoria
Paintings
with a pulse.
Portraits and figurative works that hold a gaze, a memory, and the emotional weather of a moment.
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Selected works
A living selection from the artist’s publicly indexed portfolio. Tap any work to enter it full screen.
Portrait
↗Cara And Her Teddy
Figurative
↗A Boy And His Shepherd
Portrait
↗Cara And The Rose
Figurative
↗Cara Kaalvoet
Portrait
↗The Dreamer
Figurative
↗Nymph In A Flower Field
Figurative
↗Cara Playing Ball
Portrait
↗Cara At The Boat Show
Portrait
↗Honey
Figurative
↗Cara In The Pool
Portrait
↗The Gray
The artist
Every face
keeps a story.
DR van der Merwe is a South African figurative painter working between oil and acrylic. His portraits are intimate studies of presence: the look, light and lived experience that make a person unmistakable.
PracticeFigurative painting
MediumOil · Acrylic
BasedSouth Africa
AvailableCommissions & originals
Collectors & galleries