Erik Laubscher - Foreword to 2004 Exhibition with Jacobus Kloppers and Walter Meyer, By Amanda Botha, November 2004

"There is no safer way of avoiding the world than through art, and there is no safer way of being linked with the world than through art." - Goethe.

Experiencing the landscape is a spiritual experience for Erik Laubscher. His paintings become the poetic language of his emotions - the experience of his reaction to the vastness and varying contrasts of the South African landscape. He transforms lines, shapes, colours and textures to unify them into ordered structures. In this way he identifies with the emotional force of the landscape in order to capture his experience of it in an image. The final result is a...