Paintings from Cape to Cairo
Gail van Lingen’s recent showing at the Dolphin Room at the Castle in Cape Town was the result of the last five years of meanderings from the tip of Africa in the Cape up through the wild bush and lush green landscapes of Kwa-Zulu, Natal and on to Mozambique, to the exotic island of Lamu off the coast of Kenya, to the Nile in Egypt and the idyllic South Sinai village of Dahab on the Gulf of Aqaba. The paintings, all oil on canvas using a palette knife, are her vivid impressions of the places she visited. Her use of paint is both thick and fluid and captures light, shade and reflections in broad strokes of colour.
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