The walls of his home are adorned with
an array of artworks, most of them by South
African artists like Nandipha Mntambo,
Wilhelm Saayman, Deborah Bell, William
Kentridge, Norman Catherine and Walter
Battiss. There’s a common thread – many are
portraits and music related, whether they’re of
musicians and singers or operatic posters. The
first work that he ever purchased was a pencil
drawing of a musician – bought in 1987 from
an exhibition at the medical campus library
- and this was the beginning of his love of art.
When we ask the owner’s thoughts on the
ties between medicine and the arts, he speaks
of emotional connection. ‘I practice medicine
with my heart... it’s a human science, and the
same emotional connection exists in art and
music,’ he says. O