Karin Daymond: Karoo – A lifeline - SOLD
Karin Daymond (b 1967)
Karoo – A lifeline
Oil on canvas
110 x 170 cm
Signed bottom right
Sold - 2012
I have always been interested in land. Since childhood I have wanted to climb to the highest point to get a bird’s eye view of the lie of the land. My paintings attempt to capture the spirit of a place, and so raise our awareness of the South African landscape as a place of beauty and strife. The possession of land is central to much of our identity, and land is like a canvas on which people can make their mark.
The shelters we make, the barriers we erect, the lines we plough, tell us a lot about our relationship with the land and about our relationships with each other (past and present). As a white South African woman born into the fraught and sterile world of apartheid South Africa, my paintings are my way of understanding my belonging.
Karin Daymond