Cathy Layzell

Cathy Layzell’s intensely colored, gestural oil paintings use a number of recurring motifs, taken from Nature. They contain a remarkable color sense, where large shaggy swathes of pigment-loaded brushstrokes are scrubbed over thinner washes of layered color creating an illusion of depth and light. Ambiguous forms that might suggest rocks, foliage, petals, coral or fish float in and are reflected in watery surfaces.

From 2003 to 2007 Layzell was a returning Resident Artist at the Painting School of Montmirail in the South West of France (near Toulouse). She studied at Rhodes University and completed a Post-graduate diploma in Fine Art from Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2013.