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LEESETTE TURNER | Essence
ARTIST | Leesette Turner
BASED IN | South Africa
TITLE | Essence
SIZE | 347 x 770 mm
The piece is inspired by poem by Anton Coetzer: “Once the deep satisfying overpowering essence of love envelopes a soul, no other worthless and temporal insignificance can comfort in any manner”. This poem is about finding the heart’s desire, holding on to it and not trading what makes you happy for anything else. Leesette wanted to capture the emotion, light, movement and colour of love. A love as wide and as deep as the sky.
MEDIUM | Mixed media, sumi, acrylic, pigments, gouache, Fabriano water colour paper
STARTING BID (Prices are in USD) | 175
ARTWORK CODE | LT_ESSENCE
About the Artist
Leesette Turner is a calligraphy coach, teacher, and lettering artist in Cape Town. Leesette is endlessly fascinated by all things script – Asian, Arabic, African, Asemic, Roman – the underlying traditions and history, how letters become visual images and our relationship with text. Her philosophy is to have fun using letters as a form of abstract self-expression and not necessarily requiring perfection. Neugebauer’s statement embodies her sentiments: “The scribe is subject to a rhythm that comes from his pulse, from the movement of his blood. A special kind of cardiogram, flowing and ebbing, a translation of invisible mental states into the visible.” A member of the Cape Friends of Calligraphy, Leesette’s works have been exhibited locally and internationally, and her work appears in several international collections.