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BARBARA SKRZYPCZAK, was born on the 27th of November 1949 in MINDEN, Westfahlen, Germany, the third generation of her family born outside their native Poland. Her parents emigrated to South Africa and she crew up here.
From an early age, she had a deep interest for painting and sculpturing. When having to choose, she studied commercial art at the Pretoria Technicon, specializing in sculpture under Professor E.L Bouffa.
At the end of 1987 she had returned to South Africa with a rich harvest of artistic experiences and technical know-how. She began to search for materials comparable to those she had been working with in Europe. As a result of her search, she found a new material, white marble in a crashed form but with a better quality than anywhere in the world. After a period of experiments she was able to cast it and she now makes a dazzling array of different forms in pure white! That was shown on TV on several occasions.
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