Poppies & doves

Three poppies with delicate, translucent petals occupy the composition, rendered in soft whites and warm ochres against a weathered, textured ground of grey and gold. The flowers emerge from gestural marks and fragmentary passages, their forms both luminous and ephemeral. The work demonstrates Heyns’s technical mastery in oil on paper, where the medium’s fluidity allows intimate dialogue between artist and surface, transforming botanical subject into meditation on transience and beauty.