Poppy / Papawer

This small oil painting presents a playful yet unsettling composition: two almond-shaped forms with circular centres positioned above a bold, frowning mouth rendered in vibrant magenta and deep red. The work employs a deliberately crude figuration—suggesting a stylised face—executed with gestural brushwork against a muted, textured ground of ochre and grey. Heyns’ treatment of the flower form here transcends decoration, subverting botanical beauty into something psychologically charged and ambiguous.