ABOUT

Willem Adriaan Blom (Wim Blom) was

born in Germiston, South Africa on the 22nd

of February 1927. (1927-2021)

Wim received his Fine Arts MA (1951)

degrees from the University of Witwatersrand,

Johannesburg, and did post-graduate work at the

University of Edinburg, Scotland, and at the University of

Perugia, Italy. Wim Blom taught at the University of the

Witwatersrand and at the Johannesburg School of Art.

Trained as an art historian he held the post of Research

Curator at the National Gallery of Canada and

subsequently that of Curatorial Administrator.

After leaving the museum world Wim Blom dedicated

himself exclusively to painting and for a number of years

he lived in Italy and Spain. Wim was a devoted traveller

and an inveterate reader in several languages. (English,

Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, Afrikaans, French and

Portuguese. His work is represented in public collections,

such as the National Gallery of Canada, the South African

National Gallery in numerous corporate and private

collections in Canada, France, Great Britain, Germany,

Israel, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland,

South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, and the U.S.A.

Wim has exhibited internationally and

exhibited regularly in Johannesburg,

London, England, Florence, Naples,

Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver.