Chandler House is delighted to be hosting the very first solo exhibition by Cape Town artist Lené Ehlers. What started off as a more graphic and illustrative exhibition, soon flourished into a more painterly and informed one after the artist was introduced to the world of suzanis. Ehlers spent weeks with a private collection of these embroidered Uzbek textiles, and, like the woven material she spent time with, the artist began weaving her brush-work and her ideas into the surfaces of her paintings. The cutting, collage and layering of her paperwork lead to new ways of expressing a new-found love for ancient motifs and patterns. In this exhibition, the viewer is invited upon a magic carpet ride, celebrating intuitive and fleeting moments of abundant colour, form and pattern.
The exhibition will open on Thursday 7th of April 2022 at 5pm and will run until the 3rd of May 2022.
For all inquiries: info@chandlerhouse.co.za
Verjaarsdagblomme in my Gunsteling-‘Vase’ (Birthday Flowers in my Favourite Vase)
Oil on Linen
60 x 50cm
R16200, Sold
‘Tell me what it is you plan to do
With your one wild and precious life.
When it is over, I want to say:
all my life I was the bride,
married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom,
taking the world into my arms.
To pay attention-
this is our endless and proper work.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
– Mary Oliver, ‘The Summer Day’
Small Acrylic Works On Paper
Keer op Keer (Again and Again)
Collage with Acrylic, Paper, and Pencil
25 x 17cm
R4200, Sold
Lente (Spring)
Acrylic on Paper with Pencil
22 x 17,5cm
R3600, Sold
From One, Many
Acrylic on Paper
22 x 17cm
R3200, Sold
Last Fruit of the Season
Acrylic on Paper with Pencil
22 x 17,5cm
R3400, Sold
‘n Ode aan Boncompain (An Ode to Boncompain)
Acrylic on Paper with Pencil
22 x 17,5cm
R4200, Sold
Skemer (Dusk)
Acrylic on Paper
20 x 16cm
R4600,Sold
Medium Acrylic Works On Paper
‘n Dagbreek (Dawn)
Acrylic on Paper
25 x 20cm
R4800, Sold
Tydloos (Timeless)
Acrylic Collage on Paper with Pencil
32 x 27,5cm
R5400, Sold
An Offering
Acrylic on Paper with Pencil
25 x 20cm
R3800, Sold
‘n Nuwe Ontdekking (A New Discovery)
Acrylic on Paper
34 x 29cm
R4200, Sold
Verdiep (Deepen)
Acrylic on Paper
36 x 29,5cm
R4800, Sold
‘n Sagte Vraag (A Delicate Question)
Acrylic Collage on Paper
29 x 21cm
R3800, Sold
Large Acrylic Works on Paper
Tulpe uit Istanbul (Tulips from Istanbul)
Collage with Acrylic, Paper, and Pencil
70 x 56cm
R7400, Sold
Stilte (Silence)
Collage with Acrylic, Paper, and Pencil
56 x 46cm
R8400
Stil Middae in April (Quiet Afternoons in April)
Acrylic Collage on Paper
52 x 43cm
R5200, Sold
Terug na Myself (Back to Myself)
Acrylic Collage on Paper
42 x 37cm
R6200, Sold
Mengelmoes
Collage with Acrylic, Paper, and Pencil
37 x 29cm
R5800, Sold
‘n Ander Tyd (A Different Time)
Acrylic on Paper
48 x 40cm
R6400, Sold
Gedig (Poem)
Acrylic on Paper
99,5 x 69cm
R9200, Sold
Medium and Small Oil Paintings
Composition I
Oil on Linen, (unframed)
32 x 28cm
R3800, Sold
Composition II
Oil on Linen, (unframed)
32 x 28cm
R3800, Sold
Memories I
Oil on Linen, (unframed)
23 x 18cm
R2400, Sold
Memories II
Oil on Linen, (unframed)
23 x 18cm
R2400, Sold
Memories III
Oil on Linen, (unframed)
23 x 18cm
R2400, Sold
Memories IV
Oil on Linen (unframed)
23 x 18cm
R2400, Sold
