ABOUT ANGELA

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Angela started drawing at an early age as she could not sleep. As a child she would sit in the passage of our house and draw until midnight. At the age of 12 her art teacher asked her to draw the person sitting in front of her in art class. She was concentrating so much that she didn’t realize that she was drawing the portrait of her friend. The teacher walked past and exclaimed to the class to look at her drawing. She was so amazed that she had drawn the exact likeness of her friend. That is when she discovered her talent. She went home and drew this owl. It is one of her first drawings.

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Her parents recognized her talent but the commercial school she was attending did not offer art as a subject. So her mom searched for an art school and found one the other side of Johannesburg. She attended The Johannesburg Art Foundation for 5 years every Saturday.

When she graduated from commercial college with a bursary awarded to her by the Chamber of Commerce, she wanted to attend college full time. But she had to wait two years before she had the financial means to do so. She did temp jobs until she could enroll for The Johannesburg Art Foundation, full time course. She received a certificate in drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking. She was taught by Steven Sacks, Bill Ainsley and Simon Stone. She gave art lessons on Saturdays at her home to finance her materials for art school.

She didn’t really know anyone in the art world so she joined art groups to learn how the art world worked.

Angela is currently working in collaboration with VM Productions http://www.vmpfilms.com an award winning film production company in Los Angeles.

PAINT AND PALETTE GROUP

Angela was a member of a local art group in Edenvale, Johannesburg. She exhibited with them on numerous occasions at their group exhibitions.

During this time she sold her artworks both in local galleries and internationally.

BA Visual arts with a major in Art History

Angela started studying via correspondence with The University of South Africa (UNISA), She received my NQF Level 6 in visual arts.

ART LESSONS

Over the years she has been a private art teacher to children and adults both in South Africa and the United Kingdom.

ABSA ART GALLERY

Angela created and art piece that was accepted for The ABSA Atelier Awards and her piece was exhibited in the ABSA Art gallery in Johannesburg.

THE MINIATURE ART SOCIETY OF SOUTH AFRICA

Angela was a member of the society for a number of years and served on their committee for a year. She exhibited with this group at The Pretoria Art Museum and she sold one of her miniature art works at an auction at Sotheby’s in Rosebank, Johannesburg.

TECHNICAL FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT (NQF LEVEL 5)

Angela worked in the corporate world for 4 years and studied to become a Financial Accountant through Damelin and Boston City Campus. She is a qualified accountant and started her freelance business 10 years ago.

FIGURES AND FORMS GROUP

Angela was a member of the art group and attended group sessions every Wednesday for two years. She participated in a group exhibition at Hyde Park Centre, Johannesburg where she sold 4 artworks.

INTERNATIONAL URBAN SKETCHERS (JOHANNESBURG)

Angela joined the sketch group so that she could upgrade her skills as an illustrator. She met with a group of Johannesburg sketchers at various venues in Johannesburg City to learn how to sketch.

SANLAM PORTRAIT AWARDS

Angela participated in the Sanlam Portrait Awards with her painting called “August Rush” about the miners in South Africa. It was a tribute to The Marikana Massacre that had taken place that year.

2014: Thami Mnyele Fine Arts Awards

Angela participated in the fine arts awards and received a top 100 award for her 9 piece artwork entitled “Life begins again”.

She had gone through chemo and started painting this piece in order to heal and to show that even between the rocks life can begin again.

“When we hit rock bottom we can find away to grow again.” – Angela Duffield-Warren.

2016: CREATIVEPOOL AWARD TOP 25 PUBLISHED ARTWORKER IN THE WORLD – RANKED #3 IN THE WORLD.

Angela decided to become a children’s book illustrator. It was one of her dreams and she just jumped in and did it. In 2016 she illustrated 5 books for self-published authors and was awarded by Creativepool as No. 3 in the world.

She continues to create children’s books for authors and is currently working on her own series of books. She has always loved comic books and is building up a portfolio so that she can start illustrating comics for her clients and also her own series.

WRITERS GUILD OF SOUTH AFRICA

Angela became a member of the guild in order to learn how to create scripts from the stories she was writing. She subsequently entered her script to The Jameson One Shot in Los Angeles hosted by Kevin Spacey.

It is her goal to create film scripts from her stories and make them into movies. She is a follower of The Sundance Film Festival and wants to further her career in this direction.

PUBLISHED AUTHOR

Angela is a published author of a variety of novels, short stories, poetry and educational books.

Her first novel Fields of Fire and Ice has been published on Amazon. Her adult colouring book is published on lulu.com.

She has been writing poetry since a teenager. She has been published in an anthology of poems with other South African poets. Her book of poetry will be released in 2019 along with some beautiful illustrations she has drawn.

Her second novel Catch a Wildfire is to be released shortly.