Art exhibition: LANDSCAPE – ruminating on ecology of Cape Peninsula jutting into Atlantic Ocean- exhibition opening noon, December 11 at 6 Spin Street Gallery Cape Town – on until December 23, 2021

What: LANDSCAPE – exhibition- paintings, drawings and prints
When: December 11 (opens noon) and runs until December 23, 2021
Where: 6 Spin Street Gallery Cape Town
Featured artists: Laurel Holmes, Natasha Norman and Karin Daymond
Walkabout:  Tuesday December 14, at 6pm with the artists
Gallery info: Robert Mulders on 082 746 8734 for more information  

Three artists – Laurel Holmes, Natasha Norman and Karin Daymond- are presenting their work in an exhibition, LANDSCAPE. Virginia MacKenny, Associate Professor at the Michaelis School of Fine Arts will be the opening speaker at the opening on Saturday, December 11 at noon and will talk about the work – which includes paintings, drawings and prints which as Laurel Holmes muses: “ruminate on the ecology particular to the peninsula through materials and experiences gathered along its shores” of the Cape Peninsula “jutting into Atlantic Ocean”. For more, read on. Info as supplied:

The LANDSCAPE art exhibition brings together three artists fascinated with the coast to explore the unique environment of the Cape of Storms at Spin Street Gallery from December 11- 23 2021.

The Cape Peninsula juts into the Atlantic Ocean like a fishhook, catching an array of unique biodiversity due to its position at the confluence of the Agulhas and Benguela ocean systems. “Fairest of Capes” or Cabo Tormentoso – the Cape of Storms – is a unique landmass which has manifested a particular mythology and diversity along its slopes.

This unique location is the theme for a forthcoming exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints that opens at Spin Street Gallery on the 11th of December. LANDSCAPE ruminates on the ecology particular to the peninsula through materials and experiences gathered along its shores.

The three participating artists have each expressed a fascination with the experience of the shore – that peculiar interface between ocean and land. Kommetjie-based painter and printmaker, Laurel Holmes, privileges her experience of place in both her artistic materials and well as her themes. She uses charcoal made from dead protea wood in her drawings and artist books that emphasise the fragility of a human relationship to place. Local Capetonian, Natasha Norman, adopts a poetic, oceanic lexicon in her monotype prints and paintings that developed from a personal experience of coastal living. Visiting artist, Karin Daymond, who lives in landlocked Mpumalanga has expanded her practice around the remembered experience of holiday beach walks at the Cape that initiated a drawing project for thinking through the patterns and forms of the coastal interface. These artists have found unusual common ground in their individual engagements with the land of the Cape, aptly captured by the playful duality of the exhibition title LANDSCAPE.

LANDSCAPE  

The Cape Peninsula juts into the Atlantic Ocean like a fishhook, catching an array of unique biodiversity due to its position at the confluence of the Agulhas and Benguela ocean systems. “Fairest of Capes” or Cabo Tormentoso – the Cape of Storms – is a unique landmass which has manifested a particular mythology and diversity along its slopes. This unique location is the theme for the exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints.

LANDSCAPE ruminates on the ecology particular to the peninsula through materials and experiences gathered along its shores. Given the importance of the ocean, and the current awareness around the ocean regarding the seismic exploration issues, we feel this is a timeous show.

Natasha Norman will also be running a fun linocut workshop, providing an opportunity for the public to engage with a method of printmaking but also awareness around the ocean.

Follow the exhibition and the artists on Instagram:

Exhibition @lands_cape_2021
Karin Daymond @karindaymond
Natasha Norman @natashanormanart
Laurel Holmes @laurel_ann_holmes        

Laurel Holmes: The softer places in-between. Charcoal drawing on paper 50 x 55cm, 2020.
Natasha Norman: ‘Siren’ water colour on canvas, 1.8 x 1.2m.
Karin Daymond: ‘Drawings for thinking’ pencil drawing.

Sponsored content. Images supplied.