Meiring's work offers a generous and unapologetic celebration of femininity, inviting us to share in an intense emotional experience of time, place and relationship. Utilising a rich palette, a consistent base of earthy tones speaks of the sunbaked continent of her birth country South Africa. A real passion for life is expressed through serene tapestries of shifting textural layers, a kind of organised chaos punctuated with reference points of vibrant colour, form and symbolic elements.

Familiar feminine motifs abound; flowers, a bowl of fruit, a resting bird or a delicate string of pearls. At the same time as they may be personal to the artist, we can share in these timeless fragments of daily life, the value and beauty of the everyday elevated to us through quiet contemplation. These intimate motifs are backed by distant horizons and birds in flight; thus the personal symbolism is projected outwards to the universal, and so we are all invited. At times a painting will be dedicated to exploring just one element - a vase of flowers, bursting with joyful life and colour, or perhaps a dreaming female face, full of mystery and mood. The focus on female visage is evident.