Lionel Smit’s latest exhibition with Uitstalling’s KUBE Gallery in Belgium.
Drawing inspiration from Claude Monet’s Haystacks, Refraction examines how light—and time—reshape what we see. In Monet’s series it wasn’t just the stacked hay; it was dawn and dusk, shadow and shimmer, decay and renewal. Here, a single oil-portrait becomes our “haystack”—repeated, refracted and re-imagined through shifting hues of vibrant colour.
Lionel Smit is an international award-winning artist. One of South Africa’s most commercially successful multimedia artists, this prolific visionary is best known for his intriguing monumental portraits of women. The portraits capture visages in various cryptic guises and are executed on large-scale canvases and through bronze sculptures.
He established the Lionel Smit Studio as both a working and exhibition space in his hometown of Somerset West near Cape Town. Here he pursues his craft in all manner of media with areas dedicated to sculpture, painting, and printmaking.
