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Regrowth #1
2021
Oil on paper
42 x 59.5 cm (image 36 x 38cm)
Unframed
Estimated value between R3500 & R5000
Artist statement:
My artwork is born from a fascination with painterly abstraction and the power it has to engage us visually and emotionally. In a fast paced society saturated with minute by minute documentation, abstract art gives us an opportunity to reflect, to delve below the surface and enrich our lives.
I am inspired by literature, poetry and music, but just as easily by rain pelting the studio or a landscape remembered. Any of these can be the impetus for the colours and tools I choose, the marks I make and the shapes that emerge, thus obliquely informing the content.
Working quickly and intuitively, the unexpected, in accidental gestures and marks also play a large role in my art making process. As the layers of paint build up, they simultaneously reveal and hide what is underneath. Covered up yet visible, that which is below the surface often becomes more suggestive and seductive than what is immediately visible.
About the artist:
Born in the Netherlands but living and working in Cape Town (South Africa), Truscott received a BA in Graphic Design from the University of Stellenbosch in 1984 and a Diploma in Secondary Teaching in 1990 from the University of Cape Town. She has taught art and after many years spent in educational publishing as an illustrator, graphic designer and art director, she turned to painting full time in 2015. Truscott’s most recent group exhibitions in Cape Town (2021) include No Holds barred at RK Contemporary, Genus Loci at State of the Art Gallery and 99 Reasons to Come to Cape Town at Chandler House. Her work is represented in private collections both locally and abroad.
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