Portfolio
Charlize du Plessis
Charlize's work consists primarily of oil paintings that analyse and document images, memories, and stories from her personal history. Through this process of looking backward, she seeks to understand the passage of time, the discomfort of change, and the quiet weight of aging — turning to those who have already lived through it for a kind of silent guidance.
These paintings function as a form of communication across time — a dialogue with past relatives and ancestors, but also, a bridge extended toward future generations, connecting them to lives and moments they never witnessed.
This work is made for anyone who feels the quiet pull of memory, who seeks connection to their own history, or who wishes to honour the lives and experiences of those who came before them. It is an invitation to reflect, to sit with nostalgia, and to recognise oneself — and one's own impermanence — within the stories of others.
