Dumile Feni – ‘Bass Player’ and ‘Homage to Soweto’
‘Bass Player’, Feni’s delicate work in pen and ink on paper, represents and abstract figure with a man playing a double bass.
Another of Feni’s works, ‘Homage to Soweto’ is depicted on one of the two commemorative covers.
Dumile Feni was born in Worcester near Cape Town. He started his career as an artist by drawing on and decorating walls in hospitals. His work has been exhibited at the Sao Paolo Biennale in Brazil, as well as in London and as part of group exhibitions in South Africa. In 1968 he went into exile in the USA from where he never returned. Sadly, he died relatively unappreciated in New York in 1991.