Untitled 2010

This untitled painting was made by Paul du Toit, using bold strokes and a bright colour palette. I imagine du Toit standing before the canvas, brush in hand, circling round the canvas, making those decisive marks of black paint that define these biomorphic shapes. There’s a real confidence in those lines, like he knew exactly where they needed to go. I wonder what he was thinking as he laid down those vibrant colours: the sunny yellow, the cool blue, the earthy red. Each shape seems to pulse with its own energy, like a conversation happening between them. That vivid green, like a thought, like a memory. And the black, always grounding things, like a shadow that defines the light. Painting is an ongoing dialogue; we are all in this together, borrowing ideas, pushing boundaries, and learning from one another. It’s this exchange, this conversation across time that makes art so vital and alive.