ON FOOT - 131 A Gallery 2025
Date
2025, 131 A Gallery, Cape Town
Category
ExhibitionsThis body of work is shaped by movement, by the simple, everyday act of walking. Each painting is drawn from images I have captured on foot, whether during my daily forest walks or my recent travels. Though the locations are varied and seemingly unconnected, they are all tied together by the rhythm of walking, by the way I experience the world on foot.
Walking slows the eye. It invites observation, allowing moments to be collected – fragments of a street corner, shifting light through trees, fleeting figures in motion. Shapes, postures, shadows, the way light distorts or exaggerates form, that’s what pulls me in. My paintings are not strict documentations of these places, but rather a reflection of how they felt to move through. Some details are retained, others dissolve, and in their place, memory and imagination take over – painting becomes a process of reduction and invention.
By bringing these different places together in paint, On Foot explores the connection between movement and perception, between place and presence. It is a map of experiences, not through geography, but through the act of looking, walking, and remembering.
