David Kuijers

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David Kuijers is a South-African painter.

Kuijers was born on 30th March 1962 in Vanderbijlpark, near Johannesburg, of Dutch immigrant parents. He completed his schooling at the School of Art, Music and Ballet in Pretoria achieving a distinction in Graphics and in 1980 received the best Painter award. After a brief period as a signwriter, he completed a Graphic Design Diploma at the Cape Town Technikon, majoring in illustration. On graduating in 1989, he was awarded the Designer/Illustrator merit award.

Kuijers freelanced briefly as a designer and illustrator, but now paints fulltime. He regularly takes part in group exhibitions and has completed various commissions, notably acrylic seascapes for the new President Hotel and watercolours for the Villa Via Hotel and the Volks Hospital.

Bibliography : D. Kuijers paints the town, D. Kuijers, 2002, ISBN 0-620-28975-9.