Cathy Layzell

Born in 1972, Cathy Layzell is a South African artist currently living and working in Cape Town.
Her practice spans more than twenty-five years and is grounded in painting as a study of perception, colour, and material transformation.

Working primarily in oil, she constructs layered surfaces in which image and structure shift between emergence and dissolution.

Cathy’s work engages landscape as a perceptual field rather than a fixed subject, drawing on water, light, vegetation, and atmospheric conditions. Her paintings develop through accumulation and interruption, producing unstable spatial conditions that move between observation and abstraction.

She has exhibited widely in South Africa and internationally, including at the Irma Stern Museum, Barnard Gallery and in exhibitions in the UK and Europe. Her work is held in public and private collections including the Spier Arts Trust (South Africa), Mount Nelson Hotel (Cape Town), Werksmans Attorneys (Cape Town) and Cranemere Inc. (New York).