Isabelle du Toit
White Bellies, 2020
oil on canvas
16h x 12w in
IDT075
Isabelle du Toit
Three Blues, 2020
oil on canvas
20h x 16w in
IDT068
Isabelle du Toit
Chipmunk and Mouse, 2020
oil on canvas
9h x 12w in
IDT071
Isabelle du Toit
Little Chorus, 2020
oil on canvas
12h x 16w in
IDT066
Isabelle du Toit
Casual Chat, 2020
oil on canvas
9h x 12w in
IDT072
Isabelle du Toit
Blue, Yellow, Red, 2020
oil on canvas
20h x 24w in
IDT067
Isabelle du Toit
Blue-headed Vireo, 2020
oil on canvas
9h x 12w in
IDT076
Isabelle du Toit
Yellow Rumped Warbler, 2020
oil on canvas
9h x 12w in
IDT074
Isabelle du Toit
Rouge-gorge, 2020
oil on canvas
9h x 12w in
IDT077
Isabelle du Toit
Verdin, 2020
oil on canvas
9h x 12w in
IDT073
Isabelle du Toit
Vermillion Flycatcher, 2020
oil on canvas
9h x 12w in
IDT070
Isabelle du Toit
Yellowthroat, 2020
oil on canvas
12h x 9w in
IDT069
Cris Worley Fine Arts is proud to present our third solo exhibition with Isabelle du Toit, featuring new works of oil on canvas. Diversity opens Saturday, April 11th as an online exhibition.
Isabelle du Toit’s practice draws upon themes from society’s conscientiousness in relation to human impact on the environment and its voiceless inhabitants. In her new body of work, du Toit employs her signature expressive realism to depict small mammals and brilliant birds as a commentary on the beauty of diversity in nature. Du Toit reverently paints her subjects life-sized with a high level of intricacy and a keen sense for chiaroscuro. In effect, each species is highlighted against a minimal backdrop of black, creating an ominous sense of isolation that touches on man’s attempt at deviating from the natural diversity of the environment.
Says du Toit, “There is nothing in the world that teaches us the importance and beauty of diversity more than animals and plants… I would like this idea to open up the possibility of taking what nature shows us and looking at it from a broader spectrum. Diversity brings us to acceptance of the “different,” the “unusual”.”
Isabelle du Toit was born in Strasbourg, France and moved to South Africa with her family as a teenager. There, she received a Bachelor of Fine Art in Printmaking from Nelson Mandela University. She moved to Texas in the mid 1990’s where she lived and worked for over 10 years and now resides with her husband on the coast in South Florida. In 2016, she was a finalist for the BP Portrait competition at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Du Toit’s work has exhibited nationally in Texas, California, Chicago, New York, Colorado, Seattle, and Florida, among others. Internationally, her work has been shown in London and Panama City, Panama.
