Lisette Forsyth

Cape Town | 43 artworks for sale

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Rectifiers
Painting / 30 x 36 cm
R15 000
Parent Bank
Painting / 35 x 48 cm
R17 000
Piece Of Ground
Painting / 35 x 48 cm
R17 000
Fish
Painting / 35 x 48 cm
R17 000
Maiden Of The Harvest
Painting / 35 x 48 cm
R17 000
Hout's Bay Valley
Painting / 34 x 47 cm
R17 000
Pearly Whites
Painting / 34 x 47 cm
R17 000
Surveyor
Painting / 34 x 47 cm
R17 000
Hides And Horns
Painting / 59 x 75 cm
R38 000
Wireless
Painting / 29 x 41 cm
R17 000
Jackals Dance
Painting / 34 x 47 cm
R17 000
Straw
Painting / 34 x 47 cm
R17 000
Not The Argus
Painting / 56 x 66 cm
R38 000
Insidious Delight
Painting / 29 x 38 cm
R15 000
Voter
Giclée Print / 30 x 42 cm
R4 500
Special Extras
Painting / 56 x 71 cm
R38 000
One Side Of A Square ed.3/5
Giclée Print / 140 x 106 cm
R28 000
Now Ready
Giclée Print / 30 x 42 cm
R4 500
Electrical Telegraph
Giclée Print / 30 x 42 cm
R4 500
Domestic Use
Giclée Print / 30 x 42 cm
R4 500
Bribery & Intimidation
Giclée Print / 30 x 42 cm
R4 500
Wood
Giclée Print / 30 x 42 cm
R4 500
Horse Thief
Giclée Print / 30 x 42 cm
R4 500
Four Youths
Giclée Print / 30 x 42 cm
R4 500
Telegraphs & Exercise Books
Giclée Print / 30 x 42 cm
R4 500
Joint Lives
Giclée Print / 30 x 42 cm
R4 500
Pen & Sword
Giclée Print / 30 x 42 cm
R4 500
Sugar & Spice
Giclée Print / 30 x 42 cm
R4 500
Grass Flats
Giclée Print / 30 x 42 cm
R4 500
Eva
Giclée Print / 30 x 42 cm
R4 500
Social & Personal Intimacy
Giclée Print / 51 x 67 cm
R11 000
Bär and Ivy
Giclée Print / 107 x 77 cm
R20 750
Trade With Mozambique
Giclée Print / 52 x 38 cm
R7 000
Famous Amateurs
Giclée Print / 52 x 72 cm
R11 000
Dream Work
Giclée Print / 110 x 76 cm
R20 750
Homeland
Giclée Print / 105 x 75 cm
R20 750
World Games
Giclée Print / 110 x 76 cm
R20 750
Cuba
Giclée Print / 120 x 75 cm
R20 750
Clothing
Giclée Print / 30 x 42 cm
R4 500
Chamais Bay To Port Nolloth
Giclée Print / 104 x 80 cm
R20 750
A Piece Of Ground
Giclée Print / 29 x 42 cm
R4 500
A Sentiment Of Sorrow
Giclée Print / 51 x 62 cm
R10 000
Trader
Giclée Print / 30 x 42 cm
R4 500

Striped Horse
Giclée Print / 30 x 42 cm
Milk Mad
Giclée Print / 52 x 72 cm
Bokkie
Giclée Print / 30 x 42 cm
Staking A Claim
Giclée Print / 30 x 42 cm
8 And 6
Giclée Print / 30 x 42 cm
Loving Subjects
Giclée Print / 30 x 42 cm
11 O'Clock
Painting / 35 x 48 cm
Warm
Painting / 37 x 29 cm
African Life
Painting / 57 x 76 cm
Tuck Shop
Painting / 82 x 105 cm
Striped Horse
Painting / 34 x 48 cm
Harbour Lights
Painting / 42 x 30 cm
Entrance
Original Sketch / 91 x 59 cm
12
Painting / 34 x 47 cm
Articles
Painting / 34 x 47 cm
Garden and Space
Painting / 34 x 47 cm
Ganana
Painting / 34 x 47 cm
Hand Packing
Painting / 34 x 47 cm
Fun
Giclée Print / 106 x 77 cm
Open Road
Painting / 34 x 47 cm
Port Nolloth
Painting / 34 x 47 cm
Rokken
Painting / 34 x 47 cm
Bird Island
Hand Finished Print / 107 x 77 cm
Development
Mixed Media / 80 x 70 cm
Polcadot
Painting / 88 x 64 cm
Lockdown Blues
Painting / 25 x 32 cm
Stripes
Giclée Print / 101 x 76 cm
Lopende Wegen
Painting / 34 x 47 cm
Heavy Goods
Painting / 34 x 47 cm
Electric Telegraph
Painting / 34 x 47 cm
Moon Change
Painting / 34 x 47 cm
Two Parcels
Painting / 34 x 47 cm
Brothers In Arms
Painting / 34 x 47 cm
Griqua Town
Painting / 34 x 47 cm
Karoo Poppy
Painting / 34 x 47 cm
Black Gold
Painting / 119 x 95 cm
Mule
Painting / 34 x 47 cm
Mule Or Ass
Painting / 34 x 47 cm
Lwandle
Painting / 70 x 101 cm
Smoke
Painting / 34 x 47 cm
Coach
Painting / 108 x 78 cm
Camps Bay
Painting / 59 x 77 cm
Highest Spot
Painting / 64 x 84 cm
Cape Agulhas Light
Painting / 34 x 47 cm
Sitting On A Cloud
Drawing / 38 x 29 cm
Loving Subjects
Painting / 34 x 47 cm
Lovely Llandudno
Painting / 61 x 76 cm
Kei Mouth River
Painting / 33 x 46 cm
H2 Ous
Painting / 33 x 46 cm
Zone R
Original Painting / 69 x 73 cm
Across Africa
Painting / 105 x 137 cm
Four-Wheeled Vehicle
Original Painting / 33 x 46 cm
Be Kind
Painting / 34 x 37 cm
Rivers
Painting / 34 x 47 cm
Building The Future
Painting / 115 x 92 cm
Kei Mouth
Original Painting / 34 x 47 cm
Under My Hand
Painting / 34 x 48 cm
Sunlight
Original Painting / 57 x 76 cm
Essential Worker
Painting / 34 x 46 cm
Native Curios
Painting / 57 x 75 cm
King
Original Painting / 34 x 47 cm
Essence
Painting / 63 x 78 cm
12 Year Old
Original Painting / 35 x 48 cm
Kings Will Dream
Original Painting / 35 x 48 cm
Dark Eyes
Original Painting / 35 x 48 cm
Wheeling
Original Painting / 35 x 48 cm
Fire Wood
Original Painting / 35 x 48 cm
Piece Of Africa
Hand-Finished Print / 119 x 94 cm
Prepare
Original Painting / 56 x 76 cm
Deep Low
Original Artwork / 39 x 30 cm
Interior
Original Painting / 39 x 30 cm
Formally Separated
Original Painting / 35 x 48 cm
Ist Day
Original Painting / 35 x 48 cm
Mother's Love
Original Painting / 35 x 48 cm
Snell
Original Painting / 35 x 48 cm
Lady Atlas
Painting / 122 x 205 cm
BAZAAR
Original Painting / 35 x 48 cm
Religious Communication
Original Painting / 35 x 48 cm
Forgive
Original Painting / 35 x 48 cm
Guardian
Original Painting / 35 x 48 cm
Trade With Mozambique
Original Painting / 57 x 42 cm
Other Vehicle
Original Painting / 35 x 48 cm
Payday (Betaal)
Original Painting / 35 x 48 cm
Purity
Original Painting / 59 x 78 cm
Homeland
Original Painting / 110 x 80 cm
Schulphoek/The Deal
Painting / 145 x 87 cm
One Side Of A Square
Painting / 145 x 109 cm
Wheat Free
Painting / 33 x 46 cm
Africa My Love
Painting / 120 x 96 cm

Lisette Bambine Forsyth (b. 1968) is a Cape Town based artist. The city and its residents, the people as well as the fauna and flora, are the inspiration for the artworks she creates.

Between 1992 and 1994, she completed an internship at Mechanical Graphics at the Bayerische Rundfunk, Germany - she then studied graphic design at the Cape Technicon, majoring in photography and printing in 1999. Lisette has exhibited nationally and internationally and was a Vuleka finalist in 2007. The artist’s national as well as international recognition and success are a testament to her ruthless dedication and boundless imaginative capacity.

Lisette has exhibited across Southern Africa and internationally with galleries in New York, Portugal and Munich. Her work is ever changing and adapting to the social, political and cultural climate of the time, and is perhaps the reason why she is able to not only reach, but touch such a vast audience.

In February 2022, Lisette and StateoftheART took part in the International Public Art Festival (or IPAF) in Cape Town, with the artist painting a temporary mural on the Gallery windows.

Selected Exhibitions:

2023

Solo exhibition A Thin Line, at The Project Room, Windhoek, Namibia
Time & Tide Wait For No Man - group exhibition at StateoftheART, Cape Town

2021
Solo exhibition INTIMACY, at StateoftheART, Cape Town

2019
Solo exhibition LAND, at StateoftheART Cape Town

2018
Harlem Fine Arts Show (HFAS) in New York

2017
SAADA art show with Holden Manz
Group Exhibition: 'UNITLED|SPRING' at StateoftheART Gallery, Cape Town

2016
SAADA art show with Holden Manz
Group Exhibition: 'Poudly South African' at Studio Dylan Thomas, Cape Town
Group Exhibition with East Side Studios, Cape Town
BRKLYN Spring Exhibition, Cape Town

2015
Solo Exhibition: ‘Nothing in India’ at Studio Dylan Thomas, Cape Town
Solo Exhibition: ‘Love they Neighbour’ at StateoftheART Gallery, Cape Town
Art and antique expo at the Look Out, W&A Waterfront

2014
Group Exhibition: ‘Ladies First’, Galerie von Braunbehrens, Munich, Germany
Solo Exhibition: 'A Reflection Of Us' at StateoftheART Gallery, Cape Town
Solo Exhibition: ‘Who’s looking at who’ at Rust and Vrede Gallery
Group Exhibition: ‘Music and Lyrics’ at Rust and Vrede

Works donated for Ukuthemba Child foundation are auctioned by Graham Norton, resulting in sales to Mr Norton.

2013
Solo exhibition: An honest day’s work, Studio Tonic, Cape Town

2012
Part of the Art week in Observatory and Woodstock , resulting in an ongoing relationship with the Jeanneta Blignaut Art Consultancy, Spier.

2011
Group exhibition: Pin Hole at Haas, Cape Town

What is your favourite film of all time?
Each decade has it’s own film: the 80s The Outsiders; 90s Jesus of Motreal; 00s Little Miss Sunshine; and 2010 District 9.

What music are you currently listening to and why?
Bon Ivor because its easy listening and beautiful. When I am in the studio I listen to Fine Music radio, it is relaxing , undemanding has very little advertising. The long pieces help sustain a train of thought and it is also a way to keep in touch with what is going on culturally.
Most recently Listening to YO YO MAR and LP .

Which living artists do you most admire and why?
Paul Edmunds, his work is clever and original.

Which deceased artist do you most admire and why?
Brett Whitely because of his loose style and innovative use of materials.

Which exhibition that you have visited made the greatest impact on you and why?
Harry Wichat at the Smelik Stokking Galleries in Amsterdam. I loved his loose brush stroke and use of colour – it could also have been the hash chocolate.
Most recent exhibition that made an impact was work of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye in Munich, her use of colour. Stone cold sober.

What is the question you get asked most frequently about your work and how do you answer it?
Question I get asked most is where do I find my surfaces. I scavenge.

What/ who inspired you to be an artist?
My Father, when I asked what I should do after leaving school he suggested I do what makes me happy.

Can you tell us about where you make your art and what, if any, the significance this location has.
I have a studio in Woodstock, an industrial part of Cape Town. I feel a sense of productivity in the air. I also find the people that live and work here have a style and grace despite their limited resources,every move languid and rhythmic. The weathered and graffitied buildings are also an ever changing inspiration.

What do you like most about being an artist?
To have an outlet for my creative energy.

What is your greatest achievement as an artist to date?
Seeing a commission piece bring tears of joy.

Lisette Forsyth

Cape Town | 43 artworks for sale

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