Karin Daymond

This is Karin standing in front of one of her paintings.

Karin was born in 1967 in Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa.
I was also born in Durban and my brothers and I, from time to time would spend weekends at the Daymonds holiday cottage just north of Durban. Ourselves and the three Daymond girls would spend those summer weekends lazing on the beach, snorkling and watching dolphins. Of coarse as we grew up and hit our late teens and early 20's the cottage also became a great place for parties, recovering from hang-overs with dark glasses on the sandy beaches.

I remember back then seeing Karin's school art work and then later her university work and I wished I could do that.
We all grew up and moved away and for many years I had no contact with the Daymonds, until I moved to Pretoria and started working for a gallery. I came across Karins name again linked with other galleries and was so excited to see how her talent had grown and matured.

Her paintings and lithographs speak of the diversity of the South African landscape as well as it's people. From the desert landscapes of the Karoo to the lush green of it's coastlines and lowveld. These landscapes touch my soul, they take me to that place of comfort, of belonging...they are my home.

Karin Daymond On a Clear Day I
Oil On Canvas, 2013
Size: 120 x 160 cm

Karin Daymond On a Clear Day II
Oil On Canvas, 2013
Size: 120 x 150 cm

Karin Daymond Drifting
Oil on canvas
Size: 120 x 185 cm

Karin Daymond Welcome Stranger
Oil on canvas, 2014
Size: 120 x 150 cm

Karin Daymond The Brave Tree
Lithograph
AVAILABLE, Size: 57 x 76.5 cm

Karin Daymond Only Just
Oil On Canvas, 2013
Size: 129 x 159 cm

Karin Daymond Discovery
Oil on canvas
Size: 120 x 200 cm

Images Sourced From: https://www.gallery2.co.za/artists/karin_daymond.htm

Artist Statement:
“My paintings are of actual places and I have become accustomed to emotional responses to my work, as if the viewer believes they have been to that particular place. For South Africans this can be a particularly nostalgic and heartfelt response. Land in this country is not a simple issue. My work attempts to raise our awareness of the South African landscape as a place of beauty and strife. The possession of land is central in much of our identity and land is like a canvas on which people can make their mark. The shelters we make, the barriers we erect, the lines we plough, tell us a lot about our relationship with the land and about our relationships with each other. As a white South African woman born into the fraught and sterile world of apartheid South Africa, my work is my way of understanding my belonging”.

Read more about Karin on her web-site:
http://www.karindaymond.co.za/
https://www.facebook.com/karin.daymond