PORTCHIE, van Tweeling tot Trafalgar Square

176pp., colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2024

Memoir by popular South African artist Portchie (aka Jan Hendrik Viljoen).

Portchie was born in 1963 and grew up in Tweeling in the Free State. He started painting in 1991 as a hobby, but after exhibiting 100 paintings and selling all of them in one evening he decided to paint full time. He lives in Stellenbosch.