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Elizabeth Gordon Gallery

Commercial Fine Art Gallery in Durban. We offer unique artworks, consultations, conservation framing, restoration and prints.

Established almost 50 years ago, the Elizabeth Gordon Gallery, located in a gracious old house on Montpelier Road, is one of KZN’s leading commercial art galleries. The gallery is well stocked with original works by eminent and emerging SA artists and hosts exhibitions of new works, on a regular basis. The Elizabeth Gordon Gallery offers consultations both in the home and office to give advice, an

d to cater to clients’ specific requirements. A well established framing department, specializing in conservation framing, is on hand to give ideas and advice. All framing is done on the premises to ensure strict quality control. The Gallery offers an exclusive range of handmade and handgilded frames. Quality prints are available and the Gallery will source unusual and different material to assist a client in creating a particular theme. Restoration of art works by highly trained and experienced restorers is a speciality and this work is also done on the premises. Old or damaged frames can also be restored by qualified staff.

23/06/2026

𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲
by Renee Leslie

We scatter. It's what modern life does to us - pulls attention here, demands presence there, fragments what we thought was solid into something we barely recognise.

Renee Leslie knows this feeling intimately.

During a tremendous storm in Plettenberg Bay, nature showed her might. Elaborate beach infrastructure scattered into the ocean. Double-storey sand cliffs carved themselves from solid ground. Vegetation washed away. All was washed here and there.

What was considered a given - something expected, a solid landscape - is no more.

Just another type of scattering.

Look at Renee's canvas. The contrasting horizons. Light above, earth below. Forms that suggest both order and disruption - geometric lines holding their ground while everything around them shifts. This is a painting about the moment you realise that what you counted on is no longer there.

Renee's expressive mark-making captures what we all recognise - that common feeling in modern life as we attempt to manage the many demands made upon our time. The storm simply made visible what we already knew.

Another Here and There.

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📞 Call Joy Reynolds on 082 210 0641 or 031-3038133
🌐 https://elizabethgordon.co.za/renee-leslie

17/06/2026

𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗯𝘂𝗹𝘂𝘇𝗶
Celimpilo Dlamini returns with two new landscapes from eSwatini, where morning mist lifts slowly from ancient terrain and rivers carry stories between nations.

Celi catches that particular moment when fog releases its hold on the landscape. His loose brushwork follows the mist as it rises, revealing the familiar hills beneath. This is eSwatini at its most intimate - the daily drama of morning light reclaiming the land.

The Mbuluzi rises in eSwatini's highlands, flowing eastward through Mozambique to the Indian Ocean. Celi paints the river with the quiet authority of someone who knows its rhythms - the stone bridge standing firm against water that has shaped this landscape for centuries.

Two works that capture eSwatini's enduring character - where morning mist and ancient rivers remind us that some landscapes change only on their own terms.

📍Visit us at 148 Montpelier Road, Durban
📞 Call Joy Reynolds on 082 210 0641 or 031-3038133
🌐 https://elizabethgordon.co.za/celimpilo-dlamini

12/06/2026

Whether you walk down Florida Road every day or find yourself longing for the Berea with nostalgia from across the world, Richard Chakwizira’s watercolours serve as a tangible anchor to the city’s rich heritage.

This collection of four expertly painted pieces captures the structural romance of early Durban with striking precision. They make the perfect addition to an architectural firm, a design house, or simply the home of a discerning collector with an eye for detail.

These works are sold professionally framed in black and teak for R8,800 each.

Want to commission your own piece of architectural history? Get in touch and let’s chat!

10/06/2026

𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝘆 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗿𝗮 𝗦𝗶𝗲𝗱𝗹𝗲
Few animals capture the imagination quite like the African Wild Dog. Arguably the continent's most successful hunter - with a kill rate of up to 80% compared to the lion's 30% - they hunt as a democracy. No single animal dominates. The pack decides together, communicates constantly, and shares everything.

Barbara Siedle, well-known wildlife artist and authority on game, understands this intimately. Her years of patient observation across Southern Africa have given her a connection to these animals that goes beyond reference photographs and field guides.

It is early morning. The pack has stirred, shaken off sleep, greeted each other with that characteristic high-pitched twitter that serves as both roll call and rallying cry. They are ready. But the leader has paused.

Something of interest.

Barbara captures that precise moment of focused attention - ears forward, body still, eyes locked on something beyond the frame. The rest of the pack will read this posture instantly. In Wild Dog society, attention is communication. Where the leader looks, the pack follows.

Wild Dogs are among Africa's most endangered mammals - fewer than 6,000 remain on the continent, their survival threatened by habitat loss, disease, and human conflict. Yet where they persist, they thrive through extraordinary social bonds. They feed their sick. They babysit each other's pups. They are, by any measure, among the most cooperative creatures on earth.

Barbara's fluid watercolour technique captures the animal's distinctive mottled coat - that unique pattern as individual as a fingerprint, no two dogs alike. Her brushwork suggests both the stillness of the moment and the explosive energy that lies just beneath it.

This is wildlife art at its most knowing - painted by someone who has sat in the bush at dawn and watched these animals wake, greet, and prepare for the day's work.

📍Visit us at 148 Montpelier Road, Durban
📞 Call Joy Reynolds on 082 210 0641 or 031-3038133
🌐 https://elizabethgordon.co.za/barbara-siedle

02/06/2026

𝗠𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗼𝗿𝘀
Barbara Siedle, the well-known wildlife artist and authority on game, turns her naturalist's eye to the North Drakensberg, where survival means adaptation to one of Africa's harshest terrains. These eight watercolours capture creatures that have learned to thrive where thin air meets ancient stone, where summer storms and winter frost test every living thing.

The Berg demands specialisation. What works in the lowlands fails at altitude. Here, only the adapted survive.

Barbara's fluid watercolour technique captures the essence of these mountain dwellers - from the alert eyes of predators to the sturdy features of grazers. Each portrait emerges as a study in adaptation, showing faces shaped by thin air, harsh weather, and the unforgiving beauty of high altitude life.

Some of these creatures you'll spot easily on Berg walks. Others remain shadows in the grassland, glimpsed only by the patient observer. All carry the mountain's signature - that particular alertness that speaks of lives lived on the edge of possibility.

Barbara's collection reminds us that beauty and harshness aren't opposites. In the Drakensberg, they're the same thing.

𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗗𝗿𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
Watercolour | 450 x 550mm mounted & backed | R3,900 each
Packaged for easy transportation, along with the artist's CV.

📍 148 Montpelier Road, Durban
📞 082 210 0641 | 031-3038133
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27/05/2026

𝗔𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗥𝗵𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗺𝘀
Bruce Backhouse knows the Karoo. "Karoo Preserved" shows why his desert landscapes have become essential - here is South Africa's interior painted without compromise.

The desert stretches endlessly under heavy skies, its ancient rhythms preserved in paint. Bruce's oils carry the weight this landscape demands - dense, layered, built up like the geological time the desert represents. Here is South Africa's interior in all its austere magnificence, where scrubland and stone tell stories older than human memory.

His technique mirrors the Karoo's own patience. Each brushstroke accumulates like sediment, creating surfaces that seem to hold the desert's accumulated silence. This is landscape painting stripped of sentiment, revealing the raw beauty that exists in places where survival requires respect.

"Karoo Preserved" reminds us that some beauty demands nothing from us except the willingness to see it as it is.

📍Visit us at 148 Montpelier Road, Durban
📞 Call Joy Reynolds on 082 210 0641 or 031-3038133
🌐 https://elizabethgordon.co.za/bruce-backhouse

21/05/2026

𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗼𝗿𝘀
Richard Chakwizira's new series doesn't paint buildings. It paints survivors. Four watercolours of Florida Road architecture that refuse to be mere nostalgia, demanding instead that we look at time itself.

For nearly two centuries, people climbed from Durban's harbour toward this ridge - away from heat and commerce, toward elevation and possibility. They built houses to announce arrival. Verandahs opened toward sea air. Timber lacework softened colonial geometry. Shade became architecture.

Richard performs a quiet excavation. He removes the noise. Signage recedes. Traffic disappears. Modern commerce withdraws to the frame's edges. Beneath emerges another Durban - not vanished, not present, but suspended.

Look at the verandahs. Column after column. Arch after arch. These weren't decoration - they were instruments of climate and social life. Rooms without walls where people sat in late afternoon, watching a city become itself.

Watercolour often invites drama, but these works decline spectacle. Their monochrome treatment approaches memory itself. Memory rarely arrives in full colour. It returns in fragments, softened edges, forms emerging from mist.

The lower portions dissolve. Buildings appear excavated from recollection, as though the city struggles to remember.

These structures have lived several lives. Homes became offices. Gardens became parking lots. Verandahs became bars. Yet still they remain - evidence that cities possess memory, and that memory, if nobody preserves it, eventually disappears.

Richard's paintings don't merely show the Berea. They rescue it.

📍Visit us at 148 Montpelier Road, Durban
📞 Call Joy Reynolds on 082 210 0641 or 031-3038133
🌐 https://elizabethgordon.co.za/richard-chakwizira

12/05/2026

Scott Bredin captures that perfect moment when Durban's winter light transforms the everyday into something magical. "Dusk" arrives just as our city settles into its most enjoyable season - when the humidity lifts and dog walkers reclaim the streets.

Look how Scott's brush captures the dense tangle of our typical Durban vegetation. Palm fronds catch the last light. Thick undergrowth creates mysterious shadows. This is the jungle that grows in our gardens.

But it's the light that makes this painting sing. Winter light in Durban has a quality all its own - softer than summer's harsh glare, golden in a way that makes even the most familiar corner feel like discovery.

Scott builds this landscape through countless individual marks, each one catching and holding light like the leaves themselves. This is the time of year when Durban reveals its best self - cool enough for comfortable walks, light enough to linger outdoors.

The season when we remember why we live here.

📍Visit us at 148 Montpelier Road, Durban
📞 Call Joy Reynolds on 082 210 0641 or 031-3038133
🌐 https://elizabethgordon.co.za/scott-bredin

06/05/2026

Art is meant to last a lifetime, but between KZN’s relentless humidity and the simple passage of time, even a masterpiece can lose its lustre.

At the Elizabeth Gordon Gallery, we’ve spent decades building relationships with South Africa’s premier conservators. When you entrust a piece to us, you aren’t just getting a repair, you are gaining access to the finest conservation minds in the country. From fading art and discoloration to water damage and tears, we have the team to restore your art.

Did you know we also offer a seamless collection and return service, ensuring your artwork is transported with the care it requires.

Our process includes:
- Expert assessment and consultation.
- Access to South Africa’s top-tier conservation specialists.
- Professional, door-to-door collection and delivery.

Give your legacy the care it deserves, without the heavy lifting.

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148 Montpelier Road
Durban
4001

Opening Hours

Monday	08:00 - 16:00
Tuesday	08:00 - 16:00
Wednesday	08:00 - 16:00
Thursday	08:00 - 16:00
Friday	08:00 - 16:00
Saturday	09:00 - 13:00

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+27822100641

Website

https://elizabethgordon.co.za/

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