Cathy Layzell

Born 1972 in Cape Town , South Africa

Currently living and working in Kommetjie, Western Cape, South Africa


Layzell studied at Rhodes University and completed a Post-graduate diploma in Fine Art from Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2013. From 2003 to 2007 she returned to the Painting School of Montmirail in the South West of France (near Toulouse) where she developed her life-long interest in colour theory. Layzell exhibited extensively in the UK before returning to Cape Town in 2008.

"Working in a gestural and abstract style, I investigate humankind’s evolving relationship to nature, where an impulse to shape, tame and control the natural world lives alongside a desire to yield to its wildness and danger.

At close range, the paintings are constructed from the textures of nature – rock, foliage, air, and water, appear nearly abstract – a dancing network of innumerable brushstrokes.

When painting I strive for unconscious creation; embracing the notion that the image is painting itself through me and that I am collaborating in something that is greater than myself. There is an element of unknowing and of surrender into possibilities that are beyond my control."

Layzell's work is included in noteworthy Capetonian collections such as The Cellars Hohenort Hotel, The Mount Nelson Hotel and Werksmans Attorneys. Her work also forms part of The Four Season’s Resort Collection in the Seychelles as well as The Cranemere Incorporated in New York, United States of America. Her work is further collected and shown both locally and abroad with the Spier Arts collective, Yellowwoods Art & Nando’s International.

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1972 -
Nationality: South African
Residence: Kommetjie, Western Cape, South Africa
Valley of the Red Gods VII

Cathy Layzell

Valley of the Red Gods VII, 2025

ZAR 112,700.00

Valley of the Red Gods IV

Cathy Layzell

Valley of the Red Gods IV, 2023

ZAR 112,700.00

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