Anneke Potgieter is an abstract landscape painter whose work is characterised by an atmospheric, ephemeral nature. Of particular interest to her is how mood and perception shift, and the role that language plays in making sense of these changes in our outer and inner worlds.

Filled with mist, reflected light and shadow, her landscapes lie close to recognition but remain open to interpretation – like the psyche, they are at once familiar and strange, never fixed. Given her background in linguistics, she often uses asemic writing in her work to underscore this push and pull between certainty and flux in our attempts at sensemaking.

Anneke builds her landscapes in layers, using pastels, charcoal, pencils, watercolours, inks, acrylics, oils and cold wax. The varying tones and textures of these media allow her to add and remove information, leaving traces of thought and feeling just below the surface.

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