Peter Clarke

Peter Clarke was born on 2 June 1929 in Simon's Town, a naval base near Cape Town. He left school at about fifteen and worked at the naval dockyard until 1956, the year he devoted himself to his art. Trained in evening classes, then in printmaking in Cape Town, at the Rijksakademie in 1962 and 1963 and in Oslo in 1978 and 1979, he was a painter, printmaker and writer. Driven from his native town with his family by the Group Areas Act, he settled in Ocean View, where he died on 13 April 2014.

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• PoetryPlain FurniturePeter Clarke · 1991Literature