Andries Gouws: Toaster and tea cosy on green formica
Gouws, Andries (b 1952)
Toaster and tea cosy on green formica - 2001
Oil on board
26 x 38 cm
Signed, titled and dated verso
My paintings are about my everyday world and its objects – alternatively numinous and banal, as one encounters them in meditation. What is meditation? One answer: “to slow things down”. In this sense my painting is meditative – both as process and as product. Every painting is several months in the making, and I want to slow down the viewer’s eye as well.
- AG
This scene was found in the kitchen of the Wakkerstroom home of the mother of a friend. The kitchen had beautiful light streaming down from a skylight, and I based a number of different paintings on different bits of the kitchen.
EXHIBITED
Cape Town, South African National Gallery, Is there Still Life?, 2008
LITERATURE
Godby, M., Is there Still Life? Continuity and Change in South African Still
Life Painting, Cape Town, 2007, illustrated p 45