The Pakhuis pass is one the access routes to the northern Cederberg area.
This cache is placed close to the plaque that was place in commemoration of the South African artist Paul du Toit (1922-1986). Du Toit had a special love for the Cederberg and painted several Cederberg landscapes.
Du Toit had his first exhibition is Cape Town in 1945.
The Du Toits spent three years in Paris in the mid-1950s during which time Paul developed a more abstract painting style, quite at variance with his landscape paintings of South Africa. Returning to South Africa in 1958, Du Toit resumed painting expressionistic landscape-inspired works, known as the Current series, but now infused them with much more color and light. From 1968 to 1974, the Du Toits lived in London, where Paul’s work took another dramatic turn toward abstraction. He also began using pen-and-ink and acrylic instead of oil. In 1976 the Pretoria Art Museum mounted a major and successful retrospective exhibition of Paul Du Toit’s work. His final series of paintings in the early 1980s were minimalist, weightless, and pale.
This cache is placed just outside the Cederberg Wilderness area so no permit is required.
