"There’s a quiet discipline in Laurel Holmes’ work. An insistence on looking closely, and then looking again. In pieces like Fragment of a Season I, Night and Day, Mapping a Season I and II, she reduces the landscape to its underlying rhythms: flow, tension, erosion, stillness. Her prints and paintings aren’t descriptive - they’re responsive. They hold the feeling of a place rather than its image." Jennifer Reynolds, State of the Art Gallery, Cape Town.
Its lovely when someone else writes about one's work. These works and others are a direct result of walking in the Cederberg, where one is made to just be in the spirit of this remarkable place. For more, see link in my bio.
#natureashealer
Each day during @artunderthebed , the curating team lay out new artworks. Its a constant feast. Thank you to @vanessacowling and this team, and to the artists who come together to invoice and pack the works you buy. Thanks too to all of you who come to this fabulous art happening.
📸 @evenmynamewastaken
On a grey Cape Town day, what better place to warm things up and colour things up than @artunderthebed . There's the odd cancellation ticket going - check quicket or be in touch directly.
"Re the print cabinet, it was gifted to me by Malcolm and Ros Christian when they closed The Caversham Press. It had stood in the Caversham studio for over 35 years, and had housed mainly the editions of many of the Spirit of our Stories prints. Then I gifted it to you where it has a new home where it will be treasured!" Mandy Conidaris
I am so thrilled and grateful to have received this drawer cabinet from Mandy. Its not just further storage space (who doesn't need it?) but the history that comes with it is really special. See Mandy's blog on the ''Spirit of our Stories" or go to the link in my bio /news/spirit-of-our-stories-1995-prints-reflecting-a-time-and-place
Opening today in Johannesburg at @thegalleryjhb .
When I lived in Joburg, @theatelierjhb was my framer. Always a highlight to go into the shop, and see the very cool works of other artists up on the walls, and fabulous books, especially the children's books.
Pop in if you can.
My featured work: 'Writing in stone IV', etching, edition of 6.
I was honoured to receive an invitation to the five year commemoration of the Jagger Library reading room fire. As I entered (compulsory hard hat as its an active construction site), it was with a sense of the surreal. Walking into the shell of the library, it brought back that sense of disbelief and deep tragedy after the fire.
However, the phoenix will be the reimagining of a new repository for information amd materials, a new accessibility to the materials held here.
I was moved to see the memory boxes (porcelain), titled Weight of Loss, I made in response to the fire, during my post graduate diploma at Michaelis, as part of the exhibition.
This exhibition is open to the public for the next few weeks, with guided tours twice daily. Tours can be booked online /.
#jaggerlibrary #jaggerlibraryfire #porcelainpaperclay
'Ghostlight' is one of those paintings that came out of a memory of trees fleetingly glimpsed through a car window. Reflections and mist and incomplete remembering.
It'll be up at @artunderthebed at the end of April.
#natureashealer
Tickets (free) are live. Head over to @artunderthebed for the link to quicket to book. 29 Apr to 2 May. But be very quick as bookings are literally flying in.
Featured work (detail): Ghostlight, oil on canvas.
Isn't it thrilling to receive pics of where one's art ends up?
This oil painting titled 'Rush III' never imagined it would find itself In such a beautiful, contemporary setting.
Thank you, Dee, for your vision, and inclusion in this project. @inspirationsjhb .
