Lisette Forsyth is a contemporary visual artist based in Cape Town, South Africa.
“I take the discarded materials of modern work and transmute their surfaces into artefacts with a powerful appeal to current artistic sensibilities. Scarred wood, rusted steel, battered metal and builder’s planks are all grist to my grinder, saw, and paintbrush. The story of each piece is transmutation, the outcome, I hope, is enchantment.

I believe that the dialogue I initiate in my work starts a chain reaction between my thoughts and the subject matter; between the elements in the work – the images, the objects and the background – all integrated and reinforced by the strong binding shadows I invariably include. Crucial to it all is the satisfying dialogue between my art and the viewer because I believe that our experience of a piece of art is enhanced by our understanding of the values it signifies.”
Represented by State of the ART Gallery.