GRAAFF-REINET NEWS - On Friday evening, 31 August, the Imibala Gallery at the Drostdy Hotel in Graaff-Reinet will be opening an exhibit by South African landscape painter and artist Catherine Paynter.

Born in 1949 in Johannesburg, Catherine is known for her still life and marine paintings but is mainly a landscape painter.

For inspiration, she has travelled throughout South Africa and to Swaziland, Lesotho, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Egypt, Madagascar and further afield to Iran, Israel, Spain, Italy as well as Winnipeg and Boston in the depths of mid-winter to observe snow.

She paints with gouache on cotton canvas achieving rich glowing tones in delicately superimposed layers of colour, using mica and gold, aerosol and liquid acrylic varnishes.

Local art lovers are invited to attend the opening which should start at about 18:00 to 18:30.

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