Roots and Rust, 70x 50cm

Roots and Rust by South African artist Irma de Waal.

Original oil painting on stretched canvas.  No need to frame.

Size: 700 x 500 x 44mm. 

Style: Modern- impressionistic. "Using colour and shapes, I do not wish to depict a realistic image of my subject but rather create a feeling of nostalgia and remembrance."

Roots and Rust reflects the quiet solitude of the Karoo where time moves slowly and the land holds onto memories. The red-roofed house, weathered but standing, speaks of lives once lived, of conversations carried away by the wind. The dead tree beside it becomes both a monument and a memory; its bare branches reaching like echoes into the sky.

This painting is about more than just a landscape, it's about what remains when life has moved on. It honors resilience in decay and the beauty in stillness. The rusted roof and dry earth may show age, but they also carry stories of belonging, loss, and enduring soul of a place once called home.