Cape-town based Philip Barlow (b. 1968) paints the way photographers capture images – using out-of-focus points of light known as bokeh. Like bokeh photography, Barlow’s oil paintings are never quite in focus, as though he has taken a photography without properly adjusting the lens. But effect is aesthetically beautiful; each painting is a luminous swirl of colors and shapes that delights the eyes and celebrates the way light acts as a reflector of the landscape.