There is a Norman Catherine exhibition at Circa on Jellicoe Avenue in Rosebank. It runs until late October and I must say that I have always found his works of art most interesting and given that it is only 2 kilometres down the road from my offices, just off Jan Smuts Avenue, I will certainly attend. His work is not everyone’s cup of tea, but as the image alongside indicates, it is certainly different! The images range considerably, but often have an animated or cartoonish look or wildly bright and bold.

The one thing that I have always found fascinating about an artist is that their greatest fame appears to always be achieved once they are deceased and he no doubt will be very happy that he is very much alive, and his works are still commanding very good prices at auctions, in the hundreds of thousands, but it seems that everyone only really goes completely crazy about your work, pushing the price up into the millions, when you are no longer around to produce any more! It is incredible how many of the most famous artists made little to nothing while they were alive and yet now you could purchase whole suburbs, let alone a house, for the price of one of their paintings.