Live Auction, 11 November 2019
About this Item
South African 1943-2020
Reflections of Notre Dame in the Seine
signed and dated 72; dated and inscribed with the title on the reverse
acrylic on canvas
97 by 194cm excluding frame
Notes
I am fascinated by the relationship between the physical, material world and the metaphysical spiritual conditions of our existence and it became a lifelong quest to find a balance for myself between these phenomena, the omnipresence of the spirit of place. There are a few themes or leitmotivs in my work – I have always used the window, views in an out, reflections, circles, squares and spirals, colours and textures, and that x-factor that emanates from various relationships between these qualities, as metaphors for wholeness, movement and change.
Thijs Nel
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