Ras Silas Motse is a portraiture and mixed media artist who works with a concept of capturing feelings to
narrate contemporary concepts using different African people. He is currently working on a theme he calls
The Middle Passage Revisited which was inspired by Tom Feelings. His calling was born and bred in
Motlatla, Thabanchu, in the Free State. When he left high school, he went to study Fine Arts and a PGCE
at the Central University of Technology, Bloemfontein. Then went on to work as a high school educator
and now is a full-time artist.
Awards
First place: Where Art and Science meet Pan African Award: SANTHE
2020.
State of the ART Gallery Award People's Choice Award Winner 2019
