PENELOPE STUTTERHEIME
Depicting inner landscapes has long been South African artist, Penelope Stutterheime’s preoccupation. Drawing inspiration from dreams and the unconscious, her layered and textured oil paintings use impasto and intensely vibrant colour to create mesmerising abstract works
PENELOPE STUTTERHEIME, Shrine XXIV
Oil on linen, 120 x 120 cm
This series of new paintings capture the essence of Penelope Stutterheime’s long-standing preoccupation with depicting inner landscapes. Drawing inspiration from dreams and the unconscious, her layered and textured paintings make use of thick impasto and vibrant colour to create mesmerising abstract works.
Collectively entitled Shrine these paintings speak of a spiritual architecture, “my inner Jerusalem” as Stutterheime suggests. The title also alludes to the artist’s place of making, her studio in Cape Town, and the spiritual process she undergoes in the making of her work. She describes “pouring” her emotions and feelings through rather than into a painting. The process is deeply cathartic, with the act of repeatedly applying oil paint to the canvas, serving as a meditative process for subconsciously working through emotions.
For Stutterheime, the call and response of colour, texture and shape is ultimately a desire to find “resolution of form and sensation. Gold paint is essential to her practice – “gold is my white” – and these works - bright, exuberant and lyrically colourful – the composition appears to shift endlessly, with patterns and hues surrendering the foreground and then claiming dominance again - an eternal, elusive dance of colour, shape and form.
Contact: info@everardlondon.com
Image credit: Michael Hall / Dan Weill Photography
PENELOPE STUTTERHEIME, Shrine XXV
Oil on linen, 140 x 120 cm
This series of new paintings capture the essence of Penelope Stutterheime’s long-standing preoccupation with depicting inner landscapes. Drawing inspiration from dreams and the unconscious, her layered and textured paintings make use of thick impasto and vibrant colour to create mesmerising abstract works.
Collectively entitled Shrine these paintings speak of a spiritual architecture, “my inner Jerusalem” as Stutterheime suggests. The title also alludes to the artist’s place of making, her studio in Cape Town, and the spiritual process she undergoes in the making of her work. She describes “pouring” her emotions and feelings through rather than into a painting. The process is deeply cathartic, with the act of repeatedly applying oil paint to the canvas, serving as a meditative process for subconsciously working through emotions.
For Stutterheime, the call and response of colour, texture and shape is ultimately a desire to find “resolution of form and sensation. Gold paint is essential to her practice – “gold is my white” – and these works - bright, exuberant and lyrically colourful – the composition appears to shift endlessly, with patterns and hues surrendering the foreground and then claiming dominance again - an eternal, elusive dance of colour, shape and form.
Contact: info@everardlondon.com
Image credit: Michael Hall / Dan Weill Photography
PENELOPE STUTTERHEIME, Shrine XXVI
Oil on linen, 140 x 120 cm
This series of new paintings capture the essence of Penelope Stutterheime’s long-standing preoccupation with depicting inner landscapes. Drawing inspiration from dreams and the unconscious, her layered and textured paintings make use of thick impasto and vibrant colour to create mesmerising abstract works.
Collectively entitled Shrine these paintings speak of a spiritual architecture, “my inner Jerusalem” as Stutterheime suggests. The title also alludes to the artist’s place of making, her studio in Cape Town, and the spiritual process she undergoes in the making of her work. She describes “pouring” her emotions and feelings through rather than into a painting. The process is deeply cathartic, with the act of repeatedly applying oil paint to the canvas, serving as a meditative process for subconsciously working through emotions.
For Stutterheime, the call and response of colour, texture and shape is ultimately a desire to find “resolution of form and sensation. Gold paint is essential to her practice – “gold is my white” – and these works - bright, exuberant and lyrically colourful – the composition appears to shift endlessly, with patterns and hues surrendering the foreground and then claiming dominance again - an eternal, elusive dance of colour, shape and form.
Contact: info@everardlondon.com
Image credit: Michael Hall / Dan Weill Photography
PENELOPE STUTTERHEIME, Shrine XXVII
Oil on linen, 140 x 120 cm
This series of new paintings capture the essence of Penelope Stutterheime’s long-standing preoccupation with depicting inner landscapes. Drawing inspiration from dreams and the unconscious, her layered and textured paintings make use of thick impasto and vibrant colour to create mesmerising abstract works.
Collectively entitled Shrine these paintings speak of a spiritual architecture, “my inner Jerusalem” as Stutterheime suggests. The title also alludes to the artist’s place of making, her studio in Cape Town, and the spiritual process she undergoes in the making of her work. She describes “pouring” her emotions and feelings through rather than into a painting. The process is deeply cathartic, with the act of repeatedly applying oil paint to the canvas, serving as a meditative process for subconsciously working through emotions.
For Stutterheime, the call and response of colour, texture and shape is ultimately a desire to find “resolution of form and sensation. Gold paint is essential to her practice – “gold is my white” – and these works - bright, exuberant and lyrically colourful – the composition appears to shift endlessly, with patterns and hues surrendering the foreground and then claiming dominance again - an eternal, elusive dance of colour, shape and form.
Contact: info@everardlondon.com
Image credit: Michael Hall / Dan Weill Photography
PENELOPE STUTTERHEIME, Shrine XXVIII
Oil on linen, 140 x 120 cm
This series of new paintings capture the essence of Penelope Stutterheime’s long-standing preoccupation with depicting inner landscapes. Drawing inspiration from dreams and the unconscious, her layered and textured paintings make use of thick impasto and vibrant colour to create mesmerising abstract works.
Collectively entitled Shrine these paintings speak of a spiritual architecture, “my inner Jerusalem” as Stutterheime suggests. The title also alludes to the artist’s place of making, her studio in Cape Town, and the spiritual process she undergoes in the making of her work. She describes “pouring” her emotions and feelings through rather than into a painting. The process is deeply cathartic, with the act of repeatedly applying oil paint to the canvas, serving as a meditative process for subconsciously working through emotions.
For Stutterheime, the call and response of colour, texture and shape is ultimately a desire to find “resolution of form and sensation. Gold paint is essential to her practice – “gold is my white” – and these works - bright, exuberant and lyrically colourful – the composition appears to shift endlessly, with patterns and hues surrendering the foreground and then claiming dominance again - an eternal, elusive dance of colour, shape and form.
Contact: info@everardlondon.com
Image credit: Michael Hall / Dan Weill Photography
PENELOPE STUTTERHEIME, Shrine XXXIII
Oil on linen, 120 x 120 cm
This series of new paintings capture the essence of Penelope Stutterheime’s long-standing preoccupation with depicting inner landscapes. Drawing inspiration from dreams and the unconscious, her layered and textured paintings make use of thick impasto and vibrant colour to create mesmerising abstract works.
Collectively entitled Shrine these paintings speak of a spiritual architecture, “my inner Jerusalem” as Stutterheime suggests. The title also alludes to the artist’s place of making, her studio in Cape Town, and the spiritual process she undergoes in the making of her work. She describes “pouring” her emotions and feelings through rather than into a painting. The process is deeply cathartic, with the act of repeatedly applying oil paint to the canvas, serving as a meditative process for subconsciously working through emotions.
For Stutterheime, the call and response of colour, texture and shape is ultimately a desire to find “resolution of form and sensation. Gold paint is essential to her practice – “gold is my white” – and these works - bright, exuberant and lyrically colourful – the composition appears to shift endlessly, with patterns and hues surrendering the foreground and then claiming dominance again - an eternal, elusive dance of colour, shape and form.
Contact: info@everardlondon.com
Image credit: Dan Weill Photography / Michael Hall
PENELOPE STUTTERHEIME, Hearth III
Oil on canvas, 80 x 160 cm
PENELOPE STUTTERHEIME, Weaver II
Oil on canvas, 75 x 80 cm
Depicting inner landscapes has long been South African artist Penelope Stutterheime’s preoccupation. Drawing inspiration from dreams and the unconscious, her layered and textured oil paintings use impasto and intensely vibrant colour to create mesmerising abstract works.
Stutterheime’s work is highly symbolic. Conveyed through colour and form, the images are a representation of transformation and resolution. Her paintings are a portrayal of her own inner spiritual process and the traversing of personal and collective boundaries. The artist explains further:
‘The work reveals a slow unfolding, which continues still, of finding my voice, my dance, my melody. It is nourished by intense feeling, emotion contained on a white canvas, to be felt, to be experienced, to be read from the place where no words yet lie’.
Stutterheime’s process of making is intuitive and organic, the flat forms she places onto the canvas present a diffused sense of energy. The daughter of a forester, Stutterheime developed her intense love for landscape as a child, growing up in Newlands Forest, Cape Town. She also credits this for her particular and unique love of the colour green and its continuous presence throughout her works, identifying it as a soothing and comforting colour. Stutterheime lives and works in Cape Town. She studied part-time with the artist Simon Stone and the late Bill Ainslie, one of South Africa’s finest abstractionists, but aside from this is largely self-taught. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions consistently over the past thirty years. Her paintings are included in private and corporate collections around the world.
PENELOPE STUTTERHEIME, Weaver III
Oil on canvas, 80 x 80 cm
Depicting inner landscapes has long been South African artist Penelope Stutterheime’s preoccupation. Drawing inspiration from dreams and the unconscious, her layered and textured oil paintings use impasto and intensely vibrant colour to create mesmerising abstract works.
Stutterheime’s work is highly symbolic. Conveyed through colour and form, the images are a representation of transformation and resolution. Her paintings are a portrayal of her own inner spiritual process and the traversing of personal and collective boundaries. The artist explains further:
‘The work reveals a slow unfolding, which continues still, of finding my voice, my dance, my melody. It is nourished by intense feeling, emotion contained on a white canvas, to be felt, to be experienced, to be read from the place where no words yet lie’.
Stutterheime’s process of making is intuitive and organic, the flat forms she places onto the canvas present a diffused sense of energy. The daughter of a forester, Stutterheime developed her intense love for landscape as a child, growing up in Newlands Forest, Cape Town. She also credits this for her particular and unique love of the colour green and its continuous presence throughout her works, identifying it as a soothing and comforting colour. Stutterheime lives and works in Cape Town. She studied part-time with the artist Simon Stone and the late Bill Ainslie, one of South Africa’s finest abstractionists, but aside from this is largely self-taught. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions consistently over the past thirty years. Her paintings are included in private and corporate collections aroun
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