Talita Steyn

"The themes in my work revolve around my experiences in dealing with life’s hurdles and initiations by drawing on personal symbols and narratives. In recent years I have found my work has become a sort of tangible dreamscape of where I’m at regarding things that are important to me. It usually comes about as a scene that tells a symbolic story, the same way a dream might tell you about something that in waking life felt too abstract to grasp. Nature and animals often feature to embody what’s conscious or unconscious in this personal narrative. I often have retrospective realizations about things I had struggled with previously when contemplating my work, and I like to think that it could potentially do the same for others."