Open Studios Fish Hoek & Clovelly

Cathy Stanley is a colourist lured by playful and unconventional methods of making paintings and non-dominant hand line drawings. She uses paper fragments to describe emotive moments. If green thumbs could paint, Cathy uses hers to create vivid palettes of torn paper deftly manipulated by hand to form domestic and environmental paperpainting scenes that expand beyond our private spaces — a contemplation on the fragile connections surrounding us. Technique & Materials Using lightfast dyes to saturate the Vietnamese natural fibre paper in large-scale works, these fragments form the basis of these unique paintings with paper. Follow Cathy 📸 Instagram: @cathy.stanley

Kyoko Kimura Morgan is a Japanese paper artist and origami teacher living in Cape Town. She is the founder of Origami For Africa (OFA), a platform dedicated to using origami as a tool for creativity, connection, and transformation. Guided by the belief that meaningful change—social, emotional, and artistic—can begin with something as simple as a square of paper, Kyoko creates participatory art experiences that foster dialogue and agency across cultures and communities. Artistic Practice A unique element of Kyoko’s work is the fusion of Japanese cultural traditions with the natural beauty of Cape Town. This is expressed across a range of artmaking techniques, including ceramics, mosaics, embroidery, Boro (ボロ) mending, Yotsume Toji (四つ目綴じ) book-binding, and Sumie (墨絵) ink painting. Each piece reflects her commitment to collaboration, accessibility, and the power of handmade processes to bring people together. Kyoko also...