Susurration

Stretched acrylics and thread painting on linen. As a visual investigator and artist working primarily in painting, De Beer's practice is grounded in visual explorations of loss, repair, and materiality. She approaches the painting surface not as a seamless, continuous surface, but as an object embedded with visual traces of time and memory. A recurring line of inquiry concerns the parallels between the body and architectural structures, an interplay she uses to reflect on concepts of memory and loss. In "Susurration", the artist used threadwork in contrast to thin, transparent glazes to activate the surface with differing textures and densities — a search for structure, repair, and a sense of stability or grounding.