Tribute to Andrew Verster – My View by Robyn Sassen and other writers

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DURBAN's art backbone, in so many ways: Andrew Verster. Photograph courtesy www.dut.ac.za

MULTI-TALENTED MASTER OF fiercely bright colours and the unequivocal backbone of the Durban arts community, Andrew Verster was known for his magnificent fine art and theatre design, as well as his contribution to the National Arts Festival. He wrote, mentored and allowed the audacity of art to run through his veins. He passed away in his sleep on 16 February 2020. He was 82.

Born into a three-generational household on 15 June 1937, in the Johannesburg suburb of Kensington, Verster was the elder of two boys to John and Leslie Verster.

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He attended Leicester Road Primary School and Jeppe High School for Boys where he matriculated in 1954. Never big on sports, his priority even as a youngster was with the arts. After school, he went to the United Kingdom to study, graduating in 1959 with a National Diploma in Design from London’s Camberwell College of Art, and an Art Teacher’s Diploma from Reading University in Berkshire, a year later.

He returned to settle in South…

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