Visiting Artists
Proceeds to the Community Arts Project
In conceptualising this exhibition, Mary-Louise Stein asked artists to move very loosely through the theme of nature. This is the very essence of life allowing artists to look at anything from a forest to a human relationship.
Hayley Ellis
Hayley Ellis works out of the Outsider Studio – in her Cape Town home. She works in pen and ink, ceramic sculpture, oils and acrylics on canvas. Because she uses “whatever resources and materials are available to me…my works are mainly mixed media, using paper, board, linen or canvas, and even Perspex.”
She examines gender, environmental and socio-political issues, ofren exploring her place in this environment. Hayley’s paintings are often abstract and expressionist. They’re filled with lines and marks as I explore ideas, often revealing the route the work will take, drawing me towards the shape and palette. Then she turns her mind inwards, contemplates, and then celebrates her communion with the instinct that makes her hand move. Sometimes her body also moves as she listens to the sounds and sees shapes in her mind’s eye: “I lose myself in the rhythm and poetry of the mark-making.”
Hayley’s work is available in limited edition runs of up to twenty-five, numbered and signed prints.