in the office or home Be connected to plants

Publicist, Lauren Shantall (www.laurenshantall.com), is well-known in the design and décor sector and is an inspired artist who offers her work to corporate and home buyers. She has recently revealed ‘Plant Babies’, her most recent body of work at The Yard, a trendy cafe in the Silo District of the V&A Waterfront. Shantall says she has treated her plant subjects the way a conventional portrait painter might engage with a human posing for a likeness.

The paintings vary in the way they depict their leafy subjects. Some are semi-realistic, others are more abstract, yet all are linked by highly expressive use of colour. All are expertly framed by Frank of Intouch Framers in Mowbray (www.intouchframers.co.za).

“In these paintings, colour is a device that denotes joy, and marks that imperceptible surge of love that occurs when the subtle connections between living things; between plant person and human person, between parent and plant baby, between growing person and plant teacher; are recognised and honoured,’ Shantall says.