When we stayed in Cape Town, South Africa we visited the The South African National Gallery where we discovered the exciting work of Lionel Davis.
Lionel is a self-taught artist having discovered his artistic creativity at the age of 41 through contact with a local community arts programme.
I think this exhibition was a retrospective of his life and work thus far.
It’s his experimentation with all kinds of media and the joy of his discoveries and makes his work appealing to me.
I don’t know about you but I often get stuck in my own groove of using certain techniques and mediums but it is refreshing to see a portfolio of work that plays with different approaches and methods.
It reminds me to keep trying new things.
But his work is not just attractive to the eye, it plays a real part in channelling and expressing his social activism, his cultural views and in depicting life as he sees it in South Africa.
