PENnelope STUTTERHEIME

(b. 1958 Cape Town, South Africa)

ARTIST STATEMENT

‘Conveyed through colour and form, the images are a representation of transformation.” 

Penny Stutterheime

BIOGRAPHY & WORK

Making use of the impasto application of oil paint Stutterheime presents haptic images that are symbolic and layered. With a fluid subject matter that has evolved through landscape, portraiture and still life to an abstract and esoteric form, these paintings serve as metaphors for the transformative processes that unfold in the body and psyche.

Stutterheime responds intuitively to surroundings with an intention to primarily convey internal landscapes rather than any particular reality. The result is both deeply familiar and yet mysteriously transformative.- A process that unfolds in the body and psyche.  Referring to the experiential quality in the paintings the aim is to lead both the artist & viewer to the possibility of moving through different states of consciousness.

Colour is a medium of its own in Stutterheime's works. Vivacious colours afford glimpses into further aspects of consciousness, elegantly ebbing and presenting a conduit for the flow between inner & outer awareness.

Stutterheime was born in 1958 in Cape Town, South Africa. She is largely self-taught and has consistently participated in various solo group exhibitions  over the last 28 years. Her paintings are included in various private and corporate collections both locally and internationally.

Selected Exhibitions

2019   

Mapping, Solo show, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa                 

Winter, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa                    

Summer, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2018                    

Summer, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2017

Winter Collection, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

Cubicle Series, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2016                     

Opening Gallery Exhibition, CIRCA London, London, UK
Winter Collection, Group Show,  Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2015                     

The Yearning, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2015                     

Summer Exhibition, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

Winter Exhibition, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2013                     

A Sense of Place, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2012                     

Winter Show, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
Small Works, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

Love Poem, solo show, Myerson Fine Art, London, UK

2011                     

Exhale, solo show, Myerson Fine Art, London, UK
15th Anniversary, group show, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2010                     

New Works, solo show, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
Rose Korber Art Salon, group show

2009                     

Rising Up, Myerson Fine Art, London, UK

2008                     

A Way Through, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2007                     

Solo exhibition with iArt, Cape Town, South Africa

2005                     

Art London with Myerson Fine Art
Solo exhibition with Myerson Fine Art

2000 - 2007       

Rose Korber Salon

2005 & 2006     

Group exhibitions with Rose Korber at Grande Provence

2001                     

Group show, Everard Read