WALTER VOIGT, Sunrise Plains Study, Tswalu
Oil on canvas, 15 x 41 cm
The son of artist parents, Walter Voigt’s technical ability, coupled with a passion for sky
and landscape, enables him to evoke the elements of light, space, air and movement. His
atmospheric paintings invite contemplation and act as visual meditations on colour, light and
form.
Voigt’s paintings are constructed with broad, energetic strokes and there is a vigorous, scratchy
quality to his work, achieved with a palette knife and oil bar, in addition to the brush.
‘The Turneresque views project a very emotive content upon the landscape. The quality
of light and the juxtaposition with dark becomes a metaphor for broader, more ethereal
concepts … The works become a pantheistic representation, almost having a spiritual residue
encapsulating the place. This is not an attempt to record the landscape but rather an effort
to allow the viewer to experience the particular light that is unique to the southern parts of
Africa.’