ARTIST

Inge du Plessis a figurative oil painter with work in collections throughout the world. She is originally from Cape Town, South Africa - where she Completed an Honours Degree in Fine Art at the University of Cape Town and has been painting professionally since 1999 after many years working as a cabinet maker and running her own design and manufacturing business.

 

Her paintings are figurative and some works play with the characteristics of portraiture - however, "my figures are characters in a suggested narrative - akin to a film still. Something is about to happen or something just happened. The paintings invite the viewer to participate, to inquire. 

 

My figures represent a 'simultaneousness' - a quiet affirmation of usually repressed power and fulfilment; a fragility - a condensed allegory or tale."

 

A recurring theme in her work of the past 20 years has been light within darkness. Emerging in 2000 was a series of paintings, The Light Bearers. These have recurred in various forms, currently in the series of paintings titled Light Husbandry.

 

She says, "the light is the source that drives me, the faith, even embodied in the work I produce. It is all the mystery and beauty of the unseen and unknown.

 

It is not good as opposed to darkness - even in dark matter imperceptible light may exist".

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