Healing ourselves and our planet

Writer: Hedda Mittner.

A new exhibition by the Overstrand Artist Collective entitled 20/20 – hindsight / insight / foresight opened last week at the FynArts Gallery. The collective statement of the seven artists – Marian Binder, Andrée Bonthuys, Leli Hoch, Lyn Mossop, Val Myburgh, Yoko Reijn and Kali van der Merwe – reads: With hindsight we gain insight and hopefully go forward into 2020 with the foresight necessary for healing ourselves, our ways and our precious environment.

The seven local artists of the Overstrand Artist Collective: Kali van der Merwe, Yoko Reijn, Val Myburgh, Leli Hoch, Lyn Mossop, Andree Bonthuys and Marian Binder. PHOTO: Hedda Mittner

This vision is explored by the artists from a deeply personal perspective, using a variety of mediums and techniques. As gallerist and curator Heidi Erdmann said at the opening, “Each of these seven individuals comments on a variety of issues and inconvenient truths that convey the state of our planet and the destructive behaviour of humans.”

Marian Binder’s sister, Susan Longridge and her daughter, Lisa Witherden in front of Yoko Reijn’s colourful abstracts. PHOTO: Hedda Mittner

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