Eugenie Marais
Eugenie Marais was born in the Western Cape and after completing a Graphic Design degree at the University of the North-West in 1995 decided to pursue a fine art career instead. She moved to Pretoria where she now lives and has been a full-time artist since 2003.
With her design and fine art background, Marais creates sketches, prints, collages and oil paintings that evoke feelings of alienation, loneliness, nostalgia and calmness. Her muted colour palette and choice of subject matter explores escapism and has a dreamy quality. Her body of work includes landscapes, cityscapes, still-lives and figurative work.
“Retrograde”
Retrograde, meaning going back in a position or time, Marais explores the openness and vastness of landscape painting in a series of six monotypes with accompanying ghost-prints.
“The ghost-prints literally have a more ghost-like appearance, which I love. They remind me of faded photographs or memories that fade with time, making way for new beginnings.”
“Lost and Found”
This series of three lithographs were done in 2011 and explores the versatile medium of lithography through drawing. Combined with flat coloured backgrounds that speak of space and alienation, Marais uses dog-portraits to play with emotions like love and longing.
Eugenie Marais website
Artists A - L at The Artists' Press
Artists M - X at The Artists' Press
New Editions from The Artists' Press
Retrograde, monotypes
Title: Life round here I
Medium: Monotype
Paper size: 51 x 66 cm
Image size: 44.5 x 59.5 cm
Edition size: 1/1
Price: R 6 500 (excl.VAT)
Title: Life round here II
Medium: Monotype
Paper size: 51 x 66 cm
Image size: 44.5 x 59.5 cm
Edition size: 1/1
Price: R 6 500 (excl.VAT)
Title: To the last I
Medium: Monotype
Paper size: 51 x 66 cm
Image size: 44.5 x 59.5 cm
Edition size: 1/1
Price: R 6 500 (excl.VAT)
Title: To the last II
Medium: Monotype
Paper size: 51 x 66 cm
Image size: 44.5 x 59.5 cm
Edition size: 1/1
Price: R 6 500 (excl.VAT)
Title: Hometown
Medium: Monotype
Paper size: 51 x 66 cm
Image size: 44.5 x 59.5 cm
Edition size: 1/1
Price: SOLD
Title: Overgrown I
Medium: Monotype
Paper size: 51 x 66 cm
Image size: 44.5 x 59.5 cm
Edition size: 1/1
Price: SOLD
Title: Overgrown II
Medium: Monotype
Paper size: 51 x 66 cm
Image size: 44.5 x 59.5 cm
Edition size: 1/1
Price: SOLD
Title: Overgrown III
Medium: Monotype
Paper size: 51 x 66 cm
Image size: 44.5 x 59.5 cm
Edition size: 1/1
Price: SOLD
Title: Retrograde I
Medium: Monotype
Paper size: 51 x 66 cm
Image size: 44.5 x 59.5 cm
Edition size: 1/1
Price: R 6 500 (excl.VAT)
Title: Retrograde II
Medium: Monotype
Paper size: 51 x 66 cm
Image size: 44.5 x 59.5 cm
Edition size: 1/1
Price: R 6 500 (excl.VAT)
Title: New Beginning I
Medium: Monotype
Paper size: 51 x 66 cm
Image size: 44.5 x 59.5 cm
Edition size: 1/1
Price: SOLD
Title: New Beginning II
Medium: Monotype
Paper size: 51 x 66 cm
Image size: 44.5 x 59.5 cm
Edition size: 1/1
Price: R 6 500 (excl.VAT)
Lost and found, lithographs
Title: Almost true
Medium: two colour lithograph
Paper size: 63 x 50 cm
Image size: 50 x 40 cm
Edition size: 25
Price: R 3 450 (excl.VAT)
Title: Yesterdays favorite
Medium: two colour lithograph
Paper size: 63 x 50 cm
Image size: 50 x 40 cm
Edition size: 25
Price: R 3 450 (excl.VAT)
Title: What about love?
Medium: two colour lithograph
Paper size: 63 x 50 cm
Image size: 50 x 40 cm
Edition size: 25
Price: R 3 450 (excl.VAT)
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