Jono Dry
(Pretoria 1989)
Biography
Jono Dry, born in 1989 in Pretoria, South Africa, is a self-taught artist. He became known for his impressive, hyper-realistic pencil drawings on large-format sheets of paper. To achieve that overwhelming photorealistic effect, he works up to two months on a picture. The artist lives and works in Cape Town.
“For me the surrealistic effect is the most important.”¹ (Jono Dry)
¹Jono Dry on his Surreal Pencil Drawings, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmJB5W7SbLE (zugegriffen am 29.6.2022).
