Geneve Potgieter’s work embodies her appreciation for the natural environment. Being influenced by discourses of environmental awareness, her work renders an ambiguous reflection towards a transient world. The abstraction of Potgieter’s subject matter creates a dissociation, which leaves a resolution just out of reach. Her work challenges a sense of familiarity, reflecting on intuitive preservation.

 

Through her chosen mediums of charcoal, graphite, ink and acrylics a close scrutiny of the more intimate parts of nature are considered, which are constantly in flux between an apprehensiveness of ecological loss and naïve admiration. The Memoir Series 2025, recalls scenes from the artist’s travels through the Eastern Cape highlands. Each recollection originating around a pathway either carved out over time by the elements, or by cumulative human interaction. Just as these trails become enveloped by the landscape, with each reminiscence the artist becomes more drawn into her musings. The scenery gently transforming into dreamscapes, collectively yearning for a resolution from our displaced selves.