“I had a dream,
which shed some light on my reasons for painting. I found myself in a
room filled with paint buckets. Some were empty, some half full and I
was lifting up the lids of the buckets, peering into each one to see if
that one had what I was searching for. A voice spoke from outside my dream
and asked me what I was looking for and I replied, "I am looking
for my soul" I paint because I cannot not paint.
The subject matter I choose is aspects and objects of
life, which I resonate with. There is a desire to return to nature and
the tangibility it has to offer. There is for me a reassuring honesty
in nature. Western secular life style has created boundaries between the
physical and the spiritual and that influences ones ability to see clearly.
We are bombarded through the media, the government, dogma etc. of how
we should live, what we should think, what is right and what is wrong
so that we are left with no thoughts of our own and the person we started
off with has become a clone of society.
With painting it is an attempt to connect with that
force which fills one with a deeper understanding of what is.”
Estelle Kenyon
BA Ed Fine Arts, University of Pretoria, 1987.
SA Broadcasting Corporation 1988 - 1992. Worked in the news department in
the Quantel Paintbox, producing logos, graphics, illustrations, etc. Painting
full time since 1992.
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Zaire
Rand Merchant Bank, South Africa
French Embassy, South Africa
French Embassy, Namibia
Harvard Business School, Boston, US
Moni's Corporate Collection, S.Africa
Private Collections, Germany
Private Collection, Portugal
Private Collection, Switzerland
Private Collection, Colorado, US |
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Artist: ESTELLE KENYON
Title: Lulu
Size: 30 x 24 cm
Media: Oil
Price: R 3 500 Unframed |