Ydi Coetsee is a young practicing artist who recently graduated from the University of Stellenbosch with a Master of Arts (Fine Art).
Her artworks reflect the thoughtful process of creating a painting described best in her own words: “When I paint landscape, I like to re-enact the feeling of ‘being there’, of movement, dynamism, being aware of small geographic particularities. Sometimes a landscape presents itself to you as solemn and grand, sometimes as playful, sometimes sad… In both my landscape and interior paintings I seek to discover and explore the ‘nature of reality’; the act of painting becomes an imaginative and intensified expression of the physical world, as the lines between the spiritual and physical start to collapse.”
Learn more about Ydi’s career on http://www.ydicoetsee.com/.
Ydi Coetsee was a 2015 SASOL NEW SIGNATURES finalist with this exquisite featured painting.
