Oude Leeskamer is delighted to present local artist, Ulriche Jantjes, as our artist-in-studio for the month. Over a four-week period, the gallery functions as both working studio and exhibition space, providing the public with the opportunity to observe her practice as it unfolds. The residency offers insight into the gestures, experiments, and rhythms that inform her work, allowing visitors to experience the processes underpinning her artistic production. Jantjes (b. 1997) employs painting and printmaking to reflect on heritage and identity as manifested in place. With roots in Elim, a Moravian mission settlement established in the Overberg in 1824, she draws abiding yet fluid connections between this terrain and her sense of heritage and belonging, stating: “The landscape is ever-present in my work to function as an expanse which holds and beholds histories continuing to unfold within it.” Her work is thus deeply personal but, by referencing landscapes both exterior and imagined, and through her ruminative rendering in oils, it also achieves a sense of the universal and almost mythical, inviting the viewer to contemplate their own place, past and present.