Essence of Protea Leaves
Series: Essence of Leaves
Medium: Mixed medium on paper
Size: 21cm x 30cm (A4); 30cm x 42cm (A3)
Price: A4 - R1,298.00; A3 - R2,498.00
Limited edition. 50 prints
Essence of Protea Leaves captures the imprint of leaves gathered from the artist’s environment. Steamed between sheets of paper, the leaves release their essence unpredictably. The work honours process, patience and the delicate beauty of what nature chooses to leave behind.
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Essence of Malva Leaf
Series: Essence of Leaves
Medium: Mixed medium on paper
Size: 21cm x 30cm (A4); 30cm x 42cm (A3)
Price: A4 - R1,298.00; A3 - R2,498.00
Limited edition. 50 prints
Essence of Malva Leaf captures the subtle imprint of a gathered leaf through steaming and transfer. The process allows the plant to participate directly in the image. Marieta Eyssen turns a small natural trace into a quiet act of attention and preservation.
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Glory of the morning
Series: Essence of Leaves
Medium: Mixed medium on paper
Size: 21cm x 30cm (A4); 30cm x 42cm (A3)
Price: A4 - R1,298.00; A3 - R2,498.00
Limited edition. 50 prints
Glory of the Morning belongs to Marieta’s Essence of Leaves series. Created through steamed botanical imprints, the work evokes the freshness of morning and the quiet revelation of natural forms. Each mark is both accidental and intimate.
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Puffed
Series: Essence of Leaves
Medium: Mixed medium on paper
Size: 21cm x 30cm (A4); 30cm x 42cm (A3)
Price: A4 - R1,298.00; A3 - R2,498.00
Limited edition. 50 prints
Puffed is part of the Essence of Leaves series, where gathered leaves are steamed between paper to release their marks. The title suggests breath, fullness and playful organic form. The work celebrates the unpredictable character of natural imprint.
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Old Leaf
Series: Essence of Leaves
Medium: Mixed medium on paper
Size: 21cm x 30cm (A4); 30cm x 42cm (A3)
Price: A4 - R1,298.00; A3 - R2,498.00
Limited edition. 50 prints
Old Leaf honours the marks left by a leaf in age. Through steaming and transfer, Marieta captures the fragile residue of natural life. The work reflects on impermanence, memory and the quiet beauty of decay.
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Essence of Leaves
Series: Essence of Leaves
Medium: Mixed medium on paper
Size: 21cm x 30cm (A4); 30cm x 42cm (A3)
Price: A4 - R1,298.00; A3 - R2,498.00
Limited edition. 50 prints
This Essence of Leaves series allows botanical process to speak without a fixed name. Leaves gathered from the environment are steamed between paper, releasing unpredictable traces. The result is an open meditation on presence, chance and natural memory.
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The Bird
Series: Essence of Leaves
Medium: Mixed medium on paper
Size: 21cm x 30cm (A4); 30cm x 42cm (A3)
Price: A4 - R1,298.00; A3 - R2,498.00
Limited edition. 50 prints
The Bird emerges from the Essence of Leaves process, where steamed botanical matter leaves unpredictable imprints. Within these traces, Marieta discovers avian presence. The work celebrates the moment when nature’s mark becomes image, symbol and flight.
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Portrait of Hibiscus
Series: Essence of Hibiscus
Medium: Mixed medium on paper
Size: 21cm x 30cm (A4); 30cm x 42cm (A3)
Price: A4 - R1,298.00; A3 - R2,498.00
Limited edition. 50 prints
Portrait of Hibiscus presents the hibiscus through trace, essence and transformation. Created through steamed botanical imprint, the work becomes less a depiction than an encounter. Marieta allows the flower to leave its own fragile signature.
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Lilac Hibiscus
Series: Essence of Hibiscus
Medium: Mixed medium on paper
Size: 21cm x 30cm (A4); 30cm x 42cm (A3)
Price: A4 - R1,298.00; A3 - R2,498.00
Limited edition. 50 prints
Lilac Hibiscus belongs to the Essence of Hibiscus series, where leaves and flowers are steamed to release their marks. The work evokes floral softness and colour memory, allowing the hibiscus to appear through trace, atmosphere and delicate transformation.
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Hibiscus
Series: Essence of Hibiscus
Medium: Mixed medium on paper
Size: 30cm x 21cm (A4); 42cm x 30cm (A3)
Price: A4 - R1,298.00; A3 - R2,498.00
Limited edition. 50 prints
Hibiscus captures the flower through Marieta’s process of botanical imprinting. Leaves and flowers are steamed between sheets of paper, releasing marks that are unpredictable and alive. The work honours the hibiscus as essence, trace and memory.
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Hibiscus all the way
Series: Essence of Hibiscus
Medium: Mixed medium on paper
Size: 30cm x 21cm (A4); 42cm x 30cm (A3)
Price: A4 - R1,298.00; A3 - R2,498.00
Limited edition. 50 prints
Hibiscus all the way is a joyful continuation of the Essence of Hibiscus series. Through steamed botanical imprints and artistic intervention, Marieta celebrates the flower’s presence as colour, mark, memory and living essence.
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Boempi: Story 1
Sub-Title: Fragmented shadow
Series: My Eland Heart
Medium: Mixed medium on paper
Size: 21cm x 30cm (A4); 30cm x 42cm (A3)
Price: A4 - R1,298.00; A3 - R2,498.00
Limited edition. 50 prints
Boempi: Story 1 belongs to the My Eland Heart series, where fragments carry forgotten stories. The masculine torso bears the presence of Boempi, storyteller from Through the Fire. Through layering, shadow and erasure, the work reflects on memory, myth and the incomplete nature of inheritance.
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Boempi: Story 2
Sub-Title: Fragmented windfall
Series: My Eland Heart
Medium: Mixed medium on paper
Size: 21cm x 30cm (A4); 30cm x 42cm (A3)
Price: A4 - R1,298.00; A3 - R2,498.00
Limited edition. 50 prints
In Boempi: Story 2, Marieta Eyssen continues the journey of the storyteller as fragmented image and remembered presence. The work evokes the windfall of stories: partial, unexpected and charged with meaning. Its layered mixed-media surface suggests that memory survives through traces.
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Boempi: Story 3
Sub-Title: Fragmented on the rocks
Series: My Eland Heart
Medium: Mixed medium on paper
Size: 21cm x 30cm (A4); 30cm x 42cm (A3)
Price: A4 - R1,298.00; A3 - R2,498.00
Limited edition. 50 prints
Boempi: Story 3 places the storyteller within a terrain of rock, trace and shadow. The work reflects on how fragments become carriers of meaning long after wholeness has disappeared. It invites the viewer to read the body as landscape and the landscape as story.
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Boempi: Story 4
Sub-Title: Fragment of a shadow
Series: My Eland Heart
Medium: Mixed medium on paper
Size: 21cm x 30cm (A4); 30cm x 42cm (A3)
Price: A4 - R1,298.00; A3 - R2,498.00
Limited edition. 50 prints
Boempi: Story 4 presents the storyteller as a fragmented shadow held within a web of lines, symbols and remembered forms. The work suggests that stories are never singular; they branch, dissolve and return in unexpected shapes. It is both image and residue.
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Boempi: Story 5
Sub-Title: Fragmented rock paintings
Series: My Eland Heart
Medium: Mixed medium on paper
Size: 21cm x 30cm (A4); 30cm x 42cm (A3)
Price: A4 - R1,298.00; A3 - R2,498.00
Limited edition. 50 prints
Boempi: Story 5 draws together the storyteller, rock-painting imagery and the fragmented body. Marieta uses layered mixed media to evoke a language partly forgotten but still alive. The work honours story as trace, symbol and embodied memory.
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Tsitsi Story 1
Sub-title: Fragments in the grass
Series: My Eland Heart
Medium: Mixed medium on paper
Size: 21cm x 30cm (A4); 30cm x 42cm (A3)
Price: A4 - R1,298.00; A3 - R2,498.00
Limited edition. 50 prints
Tsitsi Story 1 introduces the female fragment connected to MaMari, the wise woman from Through the Fire. The work suggests stories lying close to the earth, partially erased yet still present. Its grasslike textures and symbolic forms evoke memory, wisdom and renewal.
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Tsitsi Story 2
Sub-title: The White Dove
Series: My Eland Heart
Medium: Mixed medium on paper
Size: 21cm x 30cm (A4); 30cm x 42cm (A3)
Price: A4 - R1,298.00; A3 - R2,498.00
Limited edition. 50 prints
In Tsitsi Story 2, the white dove becomes a sign of peace, guidance and spiritual presence. The female fragment, linked to MaMari, carries the wisdom of an incomplete but enduring story. The work invites stillness amid complexity.
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Tsitsi Story 3
Sub-title: Looking beyond the obvious
Series: My Eland Heart
Medium: Mixed medium on paper
Size: 21cm x 30cm (A4); 30cm x 42cm (A3)
Price: A4 - R1,298.00; A3 - R2,498.00
Limited edition. 50 prints
Tsitsi Story 3 is an invitation to look more deeply. The female fragment appears through marks, shadows and interruptions, suggesting that wisdom is rarely visible at first glance. Marieta turns looking into an act of listening.
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Tsitsi Story 4
Sub-title: The Stillness of the Shadow
Series: My Eland Heart
Medium: Mixed medium on paper
Size: 21cm x 30cm (A4); 30cm x 42cm (A3)
Price: A4 - R1,298.00; A3 - R2,498.00
Limited edition. 50 prints
Tsitsi Story 4 explores the stillness of shadow. Connected to MaMari, the wise woman, the work suggests that fragments and darkness may hold insight rather than danger. Its quiet intensity asks the viewer to pause, look and receive.
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Tsitsi Story 5
Sub-title: Blessing of New Life
Series: My Eland Heart
Medium: Mixed medium on paper
Size: 21cm x 30cm (A4); 30cm x 42cm (A3)
Price: A4 - R1,298.00; A3 - R2,498.00
Limited edition. 50 prints
Tsitsi Story 5 carries the theme of blessing and new life. Through bird imagery, layered marks and fragmented form, Marieta Eyssen suggests that what is broken can still become generative. The work honours renewal without denying loss.
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Through the Magnolia
Sub-title: Hope for all life on earth
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 90cm x 110cm
Price: R59,500.00
Through the Magnolia celebrates the creative connection of all living things. Inspired by magnolia trees from the artist’s childhood, the painting transforms petals and leaves into containers of memory, landscape and hope. Sometimes simply called Hope, it invites the viewer into a vision of life as interconnected and tenderly held.
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Hands of Time
Sub-title: Three generations of women
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 51cm x 77cm
Price: R39,500.00
Hands of Time honours three generations of women. Through the image of hands, Marieta Eyssen reflects on how mothers carry their children forward with both touch and heart. The painting becomes a tribute to lineage, care and the invisible labour of love.
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Winged Therianthropes
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Size: 30cm x 42cm
Price: R21,500.00
Winged Therianthropes is inspired by rock paintings found in South African caves and shelters. The work evokes figures that move between human, animal and spirit states, suggesting transformation, ritual and the ancient human need to imagine beyond ordinary form.
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Hands
Medium: Mixed media on paper
Size: 59cm x 84cm
Price: R29,500.00
Hands begins with leaves and white flowers steamed onto paper, allowing their essence to leave an imprint. Printed larger and worked into, the piece becomes a collaboration between plant matter, chance and the artist’s hand. It speaks of touch, trace and transformation.
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Rock Angel
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Size: 42cm x 30cm
Price: R21,500.00
Rock Angel draws from the visual language of South African cave and shelter paintings. Marieta Eyssen reimagines ancient marks as a guardian presence, connecting rock art, spirit and memory. The work feels like a messenger from a language partly lost but still resonant.
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I see you
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Size: 84cm x 59cm
Price: R44,500.00
I see you is created from steamed Protea leaves, other foliage and white flowers, printed onto canvas and worked into. The piece invites a quiet encounter with natural essence, asking the viewer to notice what is usually overlooked and to recognise presence in fragile traces.
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In the Pink
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Size: 59cm x 84cm
Price: R44,500.00
In the Pink begins with Protea leaves, other foliage and white flowers steamed to release their essence onto paper, then printed on canvas and worked into. The result is a celebration of botanical vitality, colour and the fragile beauty of natural imprint.
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Mellow Yellow
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Size: 59cm x 84cm
Price: R44,500.00
Mellow Yellow transforms steamed leaves and flowers into a softly radiant mixed-media canvas. Through natural imprint and later artistic intervention, Marieta Eyssen allows botanical essence to become atmosphere, colour and quiet emotional warmth.
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The Dove
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Size: 59cm x 84cm
Price: R44,500.00
The Dove, part of the Orange Diptych, combines botanical imprinting with symbolic bird imagery. Protea leaves and flowers are steamed, printed and worked into, allowing nature’s trace to become a field for peace, presence and spiritual lightness.
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The Raven
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Size: 59cm x 84cm
Price: R44,500.00
The Raven, the companion work in the Orange Diptych, brings shadow and mystery into dialogue with botanical imprint. Created through steamed leaves and flowers, then printed and worked into, the piece reflects on transformation, memory and the darker intelligence of nature.
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