A few flowers / ‘n Klompie blomme

Three blooms with warm coral and golden tones emerge from a cream-coloured vase set against a dark plinth, their forms simplified yet botanically suggestive. The composition is intimate and frontal, executed in oil on board with a restrained palette of ochres, greens and blacks. The painted surface carries visible marks and weathering, lending the work an aged, contemplative quality. In Heyns’ practice, flowers transcend decoration to become symbols of life’s cycles, offering aesthetic refuge from existential unease.