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Anico Mostert is a South African multidisciplinary artist. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town in 2017.
Anico Mostert’s recent paintings engage with the quiet, often overlooked rhythms of daily life. Through an intuitive and exploratory process, she allows each work to emerge organically, guided by experimentation and attentive observation. Her paintings reframe the ordinary as moments of subtle transformation, translating the fleeting into layered compositions of colour and loosely rendered figures. In this way, her works evoke an open-ended narrative sensibility - each title offering a glimpse into what the painting itself might express, if it had a voice.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work explores the relationship between our inner world and the spaces we inhabit. I’m interested in how the environments around us shape our sense of self and how, in turn, we leave parts of ourselves in those spaces.
At the core of my practice is a curiosity about what it means to belong. I see everyday places as vessels of memory, emotion, and identity - not just settings, but extensions of who we are.
Observation plays a big role in how I work. I pay close attention to how people carry themselves - how we move through the world and experience different emotional states. These moments often stay with me, whether they come from real life, photographs, social media, or even phrases I’ve overheard. I collect and revisit these fragments in the studio, where they may become the starting point for a painting.
My process is intuitive and open. A painting might begin with a clear idea but often shifts as I work, becoming something entirely different. I’ve learned to welcome unpredictability. Even when things feel messy or unresolved, I try to trust that something worth holding onto will eventually emerge. Letting go of fixed outcomes feels important.
My paintings explore the connections between the internal landscapes of memory, imagination and emotion - and the physical spaces we move through daily. Each piece becomes a space for asking questions and creating space for reflection.