Christopher Abrahams

I had the privilege, or as some may say the misfortune of growing up in District Six, Cape Town. This was an unique, wonderful and scary experience of childhood.

I believe that what I saw around me may have shaped the reasons I’m painting today. I recall the screaming fishmongers exchanging goods for cash, the toothless grandmothers, the movie theatres, the musicians, the huge smelly dilapidated buildings with it’s human and rodent inhabitants, the gangsters and the mood.

I am pretty much a self-taught painter, always learning and always evolving.

I taught myself to paint by trying to replicate photos and scenarios as I saw and understood them. I tried many mediums, but oils I fell in love with. I stopped painting for many years until someone prompted me to start again.

And thus my Journey begins.

Love Christopher