Veld & Flora Art Exhibition by Lauriana Glenny

VELD & FLORA is an exploration of the landscape and its flora, inspired by the vast expanse and diversity of

Vergelegen – not as a literal depiction, but as an invitation to pause and experience the land as something alive with memory.

Situated beneath the Hottentots Holland mountains, Vergelegen is a landscape shaped by more than three centuries of cultivation, habitation, conservation and change. Its expansive fields, vineyards, gardens and wild spaces carry traces of the many lives and stories that have unfolded there.

I am drawn to the tension between the cultivated and the untamed: the ordered geometry of fields against the unpredictable movement of weather, the softness of distant hills beneath turbulent skies; the marks of human hands alongside the enduring rhythms of the natural world.

My paintings emerge through a process of layering, scraping back, obscuring and revealing. Fragments of colour, gesture and line remain visible beneath subsequent layers, echoing the way history accumulates within a landscape. Nothing is ever completely erased. What lies beneath continues to inform what we see.

In these works, the veld becomes both place and metaphor – a landscape that holds memory, mystery and possibility. The known and the unknown. And the feeling of having been there before.