Kylie Wentzel was born in 1993 in Durban, South Africa, where she still lives and works.
In 2015 she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town. There, she found her love for the linocuts as a tool for visual storytelling. She went on to receive training in printmaking techniques at Warren Editions in Cape Town’s city center.
Wentzel’s desire to break away from previous formal conditioning lead her to explore an intuitive style of painting, to explore mediums outside her expertise.
She gathers her inspiration from the natural and constructed environments around her, kitsch prints, strong smells, imported goods for sale on a hot city pavement, passing faces, and Tipp-Ex text scribbled on derelict alley walls.