Adri Moller
Adri Moller – Contemporary South African Landscape Artist
Adri Moller is a contemporary South African artist working primarily in oil on canvas, known for atmospheric landscape paintings that balance abstraction and representation. Her work explores open terrain, waterlines, distant structures, and quiet natural spaces, focusing on mood, memory, and emotional distance rather than literal description.
Through layering, glazing, scraping, and surface reduction, Moller creates textured, muted environments where land, sky, and water dissolve into one another. Horizons soften, forms fade, and detail is pared back to essential relationships of tone, mass, and light. This restrained approach allows stillness and contemplation to emerge, inviting viewers to experience landscape as feeling rather than place.
Her paintings sit within the language of contemporary landscape art, abstract landscape painting, and atmospheric oil painting, often reflecting the vastness and quietude associated with South African terrain. Texture plays a central role — buried marks, softened edges, and layered surfaces suggest memory, erosion, and time embedded in the land.
Moller’s work appeals to collectors of modern landscape art, minimalist landscape painting, and expressive yet understated oil artworks that bring calm, space, and subtle presence into contemporary interiors.