• stillness – an exhibition of new paintings by Edna Fourie

    Intuitive artist Edna Fourie’s new oil paintings were initiated by a desire to return to simplicity – both in content and form. What transpired was a series expressing inner stillness. “I chose my two favourite flowers, the iris and poppy, to be the vehicles for whatever ‘message’ might unfold during the creative process. An interesting development was the quiet background of nothingness in which the flowers seemed to ‘float’ in a strange light. Close to completion of the series the […]

  • COGNISANCE – An Exhibition of Equine Paintings by Joni-Leigh Doran

    La Galleria, McGregor Art Exhibition This body of work highlights the enduring but complex relationship between horses and humans. In these paintings, the spectral representation of the horse presents a species with a long and interconnected relationship with humans, sometimes to the point of holy divinity. The horse's long service to humanity, and their deep awareness and understanding of a species other than themselves, is one we humans can only aspire to and yet… Humans have, since the beginning, subjected […]

  • Water from Stone: An Exhibition of Paintings by James de Knoop

    La Galleria, McGregor Art Exhibition: 30 July 2022 to 14 August 2022 This series of paintings was made over the period of a year, from mid winter to mid winter. For me they are an introduction to the DNA that can be absorbed from the network of canals and sluices. The heritage of these aqua ducts goes back centuries when survival in the Karoo depended on the water that they delivered. These monuments, feats of creative engineering, are embedded into […]