Description
This vibrant semi-abstract painting is one of a new collection of original oils by the talented South African artist Cathy Layzell, who we are delighted to welcome back to our gallery after an absence of many years. Growing in the Cape floral kingdom, the Red Disa is also known as Pride of Table Mountain.
“Working in a gestural and abstract style, I investigate humankind’s evolving relationship to nature, where an impulse to shape, tame and control the natural world lives alongside a desire to yield to its wildness and danger. At close range, the paintings are constructed from the textures of nature – rock, foliage, air, and water, appear nearly abstract – a dancing network of innumerable brushstrokes. When painting I strive for unconscious creation; embracing the notion that the image is painting itself through me and that I am collaborating in something that is greater than myself. There is an element of unknowing and of surrender into possibilities that are beyond my control.”
