Notes

Barberton Daisies is a vibrant composition punctuated by the dancing flowerheads spilling from the neck of a simple cream vase.¹ Flat planes of brilliant colour unite on the two-dimensional canvas creating a vibrant decorative surface. The net result being “less of an interpretation of nature… [rather] a formal pattern imposed upon nature. An extremely complex yet logical relationship of curves, horizontals, and uprights…Her composition relies on the structural stress of colour and shape in a formal relationship to each other.”²

¹ Indigenous to South Eastern Africa and commonly known as the Barberton daisy, the Transvaal daisy, and as Barbertonse madeliefie in Afrikaans
² Stein-Lessing, Maria. Our Art 2: Bertha Everard and Rosamund Everard-Steenkamp, Foundation for Education, Science and Technology, Pretoria, 1961, page 32

Exhibited

Adler Fielding Gallery, Johannesburg