SWAIN HOOGERVORST 
Time is a Long Thin Hand 

Everard Read Franschhoek is delighted to present a new solo exhibition by Swain Hoogervorst entitled Time is a Long Thin Hand. 


Please join us at 11AM on Saturday the 29th of October to celebrate the opening of the exhibition. 

Everard Read Franschhoek | 20 Huguenot Road 

ARTIST STATEMENT: 

The show starts with a question (always the same): What is painting, now? 

In 2020 I created a body of work that felt like a turning point in my process. This show aims to build on that new direction. ‘Time is a long thin hand’ finds its foundations in the relationship between different marks of paint. In how two unlikely painted gestures can sit next to one another, and unexpectedly animate a surprise outcome.

Each of the works in this exhibition is an exercise in mark-making. Drawing on source imagery from my everyday life, whether it’s going for a run, living abroad, or the view from my studio window – everything becomes fodder for my fascination with painting.

The exhibition title refers to the minute hand on a clock. The older I get, the more aware of time I am becoming. Painting itself is an accretion of time pursued in isolation; an unravelling of one's own lived experience, and mortality. In my paintings I juxtapose landscapes and urban scenes with interiors and close-ups of ordinary house plants and bouquets, which seem to be a recurring fixation wherever I go. Perhaps because they too live and die.

 As opposed to starting with a finished image clearly in mind, these paintings are a slow accumulation of painted memories and moments layered on top of one another – until I land on something fleeting that reveals itself.

Please click HERE to request a catalogue. 

EVERARD READ - 20 Huguenot Road
Franschhoek, 7690
South Africa
+27 21 876 2446 l fgallery@everard.co.za

Opening hours:
Monday – Sunday 09:30 - 17:00
Please contact us to make an appointment outside of these hours.