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25 May 2018

Rustenburg – The name Bill McGill is synonymous with art that even at 84, the Kwa-Zulu Natal born lover of animals and nature is not about to stop painting!

McGill presented an exhibition that kept admirers of his work glued on the paintings at the Bushwillow B&B on Friday, 18 May.

From the town of Greytown in the KZN, McGill was voted “Artist of The Year” by the North West Vroue Landbou Unie in 2012.

When his peers are walking with bended knees and walking sticks, McGill is navigating the bushes of the Pilanesberg where derived his next source of joy, caring and talking about the plight of the endangered Rhino.

This, he does with co-author Koos Herbst, writer of the ‘Pilanesberg Stories and Pictorial Journey’, a captivating recollection of tales and pictures of wild animals.

Koos Herbst and Bill McGill during the exhibition.
Back from left: Johan van Staden, Magdeli Venter and Dané Venter. Front: Ruby Venter.

 

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