ROSEMARY JOYNT
Johannesburg based artist, Rosemary Joynt actively immerses herself in her work to uncover intersecting relationships between abstraction and representation pertaining to nature. With considerable experience exhibiting with galleries such as Rust en Vrede and exposure at Turbine Art Fair, her work has become known for its dream-like manner.
As part of her creative process, Rosemary embarks on an intuitive practice of collecting fragments of images, interrogating their links to the physical and the spiritual. She approaches the canvas as a conceptual space, where obscure patterns coincide in such a way to present subtle instances of order and harmony. She renders nature as a moving force through the bleeding of colour and the rippling of line as they mimic the fluctuating energy between earth and sky.
ON EXHIBITION
Rosemary Joynt
Secret Territory
Oil on Belgian Linen
100 x 120 cm
R 35 910​​
Secret Territory is part of a series of paintings that explores transitions in time and space and the sensations they invoke. This painting depicts night as a time inhabited by shifting realities where shapes seem to dissolve and reappear. It is a time of transformation and possibility. The looming forms spark our imagination and provide a sense of mystery. It allowed me to extend the boundaries of the observed reality to a more dreamlike portrayal.