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Artist: Elmari Steyn Unique State Print size: irregular Paper size: 31(h) x 31(w)cm Medium: multiplate etching, aquatint and chine-collé, hand colouring with 23k gold leaf Price: $950 framed Artist's statement The man said he knew of this tree, growing on a dark, backwater bank. Here, he would often lower his anchor, tie his boat and fish all day. Wind-blown the tree stood, proudly bowed in strength, her roots wise and buried deep. His boat was new, the wood still young and freshly oiled. The tree watched it rocking on the tide, the high, proud bow, the gleaming planks and under the stillness of the sky, she fell in love. She let her leaves whisper to the new wood, shade it from the sun, showered it with blooms and fragrance. Then, on a cold evening, with the river veiled in mist, the boat nestled firmly into the mud and rocks. It chose to stay, tied to his tree. -
Artist: Elmari Steyn Unique State Print size: irregular Paper size: 31(h) x 31(w)cm Medium: multiplate etching, aquatint and chine-collé, hand colouring with 23k gold leaf Price: $950 framed Artist's statementAt the water’s edge of a windy ocean, lived a small band of people. They decided to build a tall house. Proud it stood on an impossible rock, eyes blinking into the salt and the howling winds. The women soon found small birds sheltering at the back-door steps. So, they planted them a garden of fragrant blooms and sturdy trees, filled bowls with fresh water and laid out trays of crumbs. Some birds stayed and kept them company, while others came to rest briefly, recover, and then open their wings, lift into the wind, and call their piercing goodbyes.
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Artist: Elmari Steyn Unique State Print size: irregular Paper size: 76(h) x 56(w)cm Medium: multiplate etching, aquatint and chine-collé, hand colouring with 23k gold leaf Price: $1,550 unframed Artist's statementHe took his time to make the boat. Once finished, before he pushed it into the water; he walked around it, admired the graceful lines, the gentle grain of the old wood, the smell of pitch. He then spoke softly to it, lay the crafted oars into it, side by side, pushed it into the water and gave the boat its soul.
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Artist: Elmari Steyn Unique State Print size: irregular Paper size: 76(h) x 56(w)cm Medium: multiplate etching, aquatint and chine-collé, hand colouring with 23k gold leaf Price: $1,950 framed Artist's statement A little boat once asked its Grandfather; being so small how far could it sail into the unknown? It was told that it was not its size that mattered but the strength of its sail and the colours of its dreams that will sail it to the ends of the Earth. -
Artist: Elmari Steyn Unique State Print size: irregular Paper size: 76(h) x 56(w)cm Medium: multiplate etching, aquatint and chine-collé, hand colouring with 23k gold leaf Price: $1,700 framed Artist's statementNew lands proved tough for the women. They longed for their old homes of stone and the peach trees that shaded the back yards. An ultimatum was put to the men, all the women will sail back home! The men thought that this was amusing, since the women had no sail. The women declared that they would use the Sunday dresses of the plump, with the side seams undone and it will catch the wind in its ample hips and sail them swiftly home.
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Artist: Elmari Steyn Unique State Print size: irregular Paper size: 76(h) x 56(w)cm Medium: multiplate etching, aquatint and chine-collé, hand colouring with 23k gold leaf Price: $2,100 framed Artist's statement Arboretum Adrift relates the moving story of a sprawling old tribal tree that stood proud at the edge of the Grandfathers Woods. Here, under its vast canopy, with dark times approaching, the tribe promised not to leave the tree behind. Gradually, they dug a deep trench around the tree; a strong- boat was built around the roots and with a deep keel to hold the earth and the tree’s memories within it. Then, with the early summer rains breaching the river bank, they launched the tree into the slow stream and let it drift down to the sea, where they lashed a sail to the strongest branches and set a course due north to their new home. -
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Artist: Elmari Steyn Unique State Print size: irregular Paper size: 76(h) x 56(w)cm Medium: multiplate etching, aquatint and chine-collé, hand colouring with 23k gold leaf Price: $1,700 framed Artist's statement A time came when they knew they had to leave. They placed their trust in a captain of shady character, but since he wore the robes of religion, his word was taken. They loaded their trees, their cuttings, and seeds, and set sail for a new land; with one eye on the dark clouds and one eye on the captain. -
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Artist: Elmari Steyn Unique State Paper size: 76(h) x 56(w)cm Medium: multiplate etching, aquatint and chine-collé, hand colouring with 23k gold leaf Price: $1,400 framed Artist's statement He took his time to make the boat. Once finished, before he pushed it into the water; he walked around it, admired the graceful lines, the gentle grain of the old wood, the smell of pitch. He then spoke softly to it, lay the crafted oars into it, side by side, pushed it into the water and gave the boat its soul. -
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Artist: Elmari Steyn Unique State Paper size: 31.5(h) x 31.5(w)cm Medium: multiplate etching, aquatint and chine-collé, hand colouring with 23k gold leaf Price: $850 framed -
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Artist: Elmari Steyn Unique State Paper size: 76(h) x 56(w)cm Medium: multiplate etching, aquatint and chine-collé, hand colouring with 23k gold leaf Price: $1,400 framed Artist's statement On an untamed expanse of land there lived a man who took his time and planted many trees; trees collected on his many wanderings. Over time the trees grew dense and tangled and hid the man as he grew old. Passers-by would sometimes glimpse him, lanky and still, in brief slanting rays of sunlight. Could have short conversations. Long after he passed, they recalled the conversations and sometimes wondered if they had talked to the man or the trees. -
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Artist: Elmari Steyn Unique State Paper size: 31.5(h) x 31.5(w)cm Medium: multiplate etching, aquatint and chine-collé, hand colouring with 23k gold leaf Price: $850 framed -
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Artist: Elmari Steyn Unique State Paper size: 31.5(h) x 31.5(w)cm Medium: multiplate etching, aquatint and chine-collé, hand colouring with 23k gold leaf Price: $850 framed -
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Artist: Elmari Steyn Unique State Paper size: 76(h) x 56(w)cm Medium: multiplate etching, aquatint and chine-collé, hand colouring with 23k gold leaf Price: $1,400 framed Artist's statement A little boat once asked its Grandfather; being so small how far could it sail into the unknown? It was told that it was not its size that mattered but the strength of its sail and the colours of its dreams that will sail it to the ends of the Earth. -
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Artist: Elmari Steyn Unique State Paper size: 31.5(h) x 31.5(w)cm Medium: multiplate etching, aquatint and chine-collé, hand colouring with 23k gold leaf Price: $850 framed -
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Artist: Elmari Steyn Unique State Print size: 68(h) x 48(w)cm Paper size: 76(h) x 56(w)cm Medium: multiplate etching, aquatint and chine-collé, hand colouring with 23k gold leaf Price: $1,700 framed -
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Artist: Elmari Steyn Unique State Paper size: 56(h) x 76(w)cm Medium: multiplate etching, aquatint and chine-collé, hand colouring with 23k gold leaf Price: $1,600 framed Artist's statement On a clear winter night, a little person asked the Grandfather if Winter had come to stay and will it ever be warm again. Grandfather quietly answered, if one lies down on the ground and stay very still, one can hear the soft breathing of Spring as she lies sleeping at Winter’s foot, the clear tinkling of her dreams that will turn cold frosted flowers into the new season’s blooms. -
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Artist: Elmari Steyn Unique State Print size: 68(h) x 48(w)cm Paper size: 76(h) x 56(w)cm Medium: multiplate etching, aquatint and chine-collé, hand colouring with 23k gold leaf Price: $1,700 framed Artist's statement A small band of wandering people found a narrow clearing in the woods, here the filtered shafts of sunlight fell all the way to the leafy floor. It was a small clearing and after much discussion it was decided to build all the houses on top of one another to leave enough space to plant all their fruit and flowers. -
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Artist: Elmari Steyn Unique State Paper size: 76(h) x 56(w)cm Medium: multiplate etching, aquatint and chine-collé, hand colouring with 23k gold leaf Price: $1,600 framed Artist's statement A man of different ideas built a house with open windows and no view. For peace he planted a small front garden and many trees for the birds. Here they nested and fed, and sang their evening song. He, himself stayed in a little lookout, high above the house. From here he watched the birds come and go and raise their young. His educated cat placed himself under strict orders to guard the house and the birds. -
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Artist: Elmari Steyn Unique State Paper size: 31.5(h) x 31.5(w)cm Medium: multiplate etching, aquatint and chine-collé, hand colouring with 23k gold leaf Price: $850 framed -
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Artist: Elmari Steyn Unique State Print size: 68(h) x 45(w)cm (irregular) Paper size: 76(h) x 56(w)cm Medium: Hard and soft ground etching, aquatint, chine collé with 23k gold leaf and hand colouring Price: $2,500 framed (PPP2021 Finalist) -
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Artist: Elmari Steyn Unique State Print size: 68 x 48cm Paper size: 76(h) x 56(w)cm Medium: multiplate etching, aquatint and chine-collé, hand colouring with 23k gold leaf Price: $1,700 framed Artist's statement From afar they saw what seems like a forest of old floating trees. Many months at sea brought two small and storm battered boats to a sheltered cove. Here they found a secret sparkling bay, protected from the storm by old gnarly trees, they anchored and fell asleep to the rocking of their boat and the song of the winds high above.
