A Cape Cottage in a Landscape with Trees South African image He compressed the space and

He compressed the space and simplified the forms

the more the art critics love it

This specific still life was painted in 1935

I visited this city once for a few days and I swear my heart started beating faster the moment we landed there

taken just before dawn

A Cape Cottage in a Landscape with Trees South African image He compressed the space andThis painting was painted by Nita Spilhaus. It caught my eye because it is such a familiar image. If you drive around anywhere in our country, there are always cottages like this next to the road, often more run down looking than this one. I always wonder about the cottages though, who built it there, why there, who lived there, someone must have grown up there? So many stories lost. I think she captured a very familiar scene beautifully, with nature