The Gallery at Avondale, the newest addition to the Paarl art scene, presents a new solo show of paintings by Cape Town artist Lauren Shantall. It forms part of a larger group exhibition called Blooms & Berge and is hung inside Faber, the estate’s award-winning farm-to-fork restaurant.
Shantall’s paintings take the vase and the idea of the vessel as recurring starting points, and explore it as a metaphor for holding, receiving, carrying and transformation. Vases become containers for colour, memory, atmosphere and emotion, and water runs through the work as an underlying presence. Some paintings remain figurative while others approach abstraction, and a few depict flowers from Avondale’s own gardens.
The show is meant to be experienced as part of Faber’s wider sensory setting, an encounter between painting, food and place. In June, Faber won four awards at the 2026 Haute Grandeur Global Awards, including Best Garden Restaurant in Africa.