Jacques 001

About the artist

Jacques (born Pieter Jacques Krugel in 1958) is a South African landscape artist from Mpumalanga. He earned a National Diploma in Graphic Design, then shifted to full-time painting. Jacques is best known for vivid acrylic canvases of the African outdoors: scenic vistas populated by Nguni cattle, indigenous aloe plants, ostriches and baobab trees. His work exhibits a stylized, illustrative quality. By using a bright,…