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Harvey Rotschild




Prince Albert Farm Cottage
Oil
40x40cm(F-59x59cm)
R8500-00

Orange door (Prince Albert)
Oil
22x20cm(F59x54cm)
R4500-00

Harvey Rothschild is a gut feel guy with a passion for the natural and creative fire burning in his belly. He’s been that way

ever since he can remember. Some artists discover their calling in later life. With Harvey, creativity came looking for him at a very early age.

Colour, texture, shape, form. Harvey’s fascination with these constructs have sculpted his sensibilities all his life.

First, in the demi-monde of fashion, and more recently, in the world of painting.

Sketches of schooling.Born in Johannesberg, South Africa at the mid-point of the last century, Harvey proved to be a very average scholar -

and an extraordinary artistic talent. He was drawn to take art lessons at the local recreation centre at age 6. The next year, an

impressionistic work entitled ‘The Whispering Tea-pot’ won a Gold Medal at the annual Rand Easter Show and

a career in the creative arts was born.

Carcasonne - S France
Oil
49x49cm(F85x85cm)
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Following his matriculation and an undistinguished nine month military ‘career’ spent soaking up the awe-inspiring landscape

 of the Namib desert, Harvey headed for England in 1969 to further his studies in Art and Design and to be part

of the creative explosion in art, fashion and music that blasted London in the Swinging Sixties. With a foundation course completed at the

Blackpool School of Art behind him, he was admitted to the prestigious St Martins School of Art and Design in London where he spent three years

specialising in fashion and textiles.Fashionista extraordinaire Following his stint at St Martins, Harvey returned to South Africa

where he immediately made a huge impression on the emerging local fashion scene. He was one of the founding partners

of the legendary Goophees label, and later created acclaimed collections for designer labels Rich Rags and Ronald Sassoon.

In 1982 he won the South Africa Designer of the Year Award as well as the Coty International Menswear Design Award.

Doors began opening abroad. Harvey was offered a freelance assignment to design for Ralph Lauren in the USA.

In 1984 he returned to the UK and established his own design studio and the Harvey Rothschild label.

Together with an English friend they purchased an old farmhouse and animal outbuildings in St Ives, Cornwall and set about restoring them.

efforts were rewarded in 1987 when they won the Prince of Wales Award for Innovation and Architecture.

The years spent in England were hectic and heady. Apart from building up the HR brand which penetrated markets far afield
as Europe, Japan, and the USA, Harvey also completed lucrative design contracts with global brands such as Burberrys, Christian Dior
and Iceberg. In 1995 he won the BBC Clothes Show award for menswear. It was at this time, as an escape from the relentless,
high pressure fashion world, Harvey began applying his sketching skills to the picturesque countryside surrounding his home in Cornwall.
The area, which is renowned for its magical light quality, soon had him reaching for his watercolours.
The bug, which had bitten all those years ago, was back with a vengeance