Liesel Wessels is a local Bloemfontein South African Artist specializing in portraits, nudes and other figures in oil paint or pencil/charcoal drawings. Liesel loves to create the female subject with realism and a slight twist of textures and contemporary style.Liesel studied B.A. Fine Arts at the University of Free State (completed 2006) and also at the Ernst de Jongh Academy in Pretoria. She has been creating art seriously since 2002 and completed over 40 Art commissions in 2012 alone. Liesel has sold many artworks over the past years all over South Africa and even with a few overseas clients.Previous Art Exhibitions:Free State Ceramic Art Exhibition at Oliewenhuis 2004, 3 pieces acceptedStudent Art Exhibitions 2004 - 2006Sasol New Signatures 2007CED Group Art Exhibtion 2008 with Pauline van Tonder, Doret Bonthuis and several other artists.Bellringer Art Exhibition 2013 with Annette Roberts, Mariette Pretorius, Este Mostert and several other artists.
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