J-BAC 2025 - High School 2nd Place Winner - Mienke Brits - Echoes of Ancestry Engelet van Schoor I took inspiration from Vincent

I took inspiration from Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night and made it more colourful and rainbow like

I have been interviewed by several journalists and appeared on KYKNET in 2020

By echoing American Gothic

2023: Placed 2nd in the Wildlife category at the SCAVA Annual Art Competition in George

Inspired by Rembrandt’s self-portrait and Dali’s Persistence of Memory

J-BAC 2025 - High School 2nd Place Winner - Mienke Brits - Echoes of Ancestry Engelet van Schoor I took inspiration from VincentArtist: Mienke Brits Artwork Title: Echoes of Ancestry Size: 650mm x 500mm Meduim: Graphite pencil Framed Artist Bio: Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. Thomas Merton My name is Mienke Brits, a Grade 12 learner and Head girl of High school Nico Malan in Humansdorp. As the top of my class in Visual Arts, my work reflects a lifelong devotion to creativity and expression. Art has never been just a subject to me, it has