Sarina Engelbrecht
Artist ⎮ Jeffreys Bay, South Africa
Contemporary Artist - Digital & Mixed Media
Sarina Engelbrecht is a contemporary artist in South Africa with over 17 years of experience as a visual creative. Her work fuses photography, painting, drawing, and digital processes into layered, immersive pieces that explore instinct, desire, spirituality, and the symbolic language of the inner world.
"The Sacred"
A digitally constructed artwork composed from the artist’s own photographs, paintings, and drawings, layered to create a singular, multi-dimensional piece.
Edition: Unique (1/1) archival print
"Op die Spel"
A digitally constructed artwork composed from the artist’s own photographs, paintings, and drawings, layered to create a singular, multi-dimensional piece.
Edition: Unique (1/1) archival print
My Work
Layered, intuitive, and deeply symbolic, my work exists at the intersection of the physical and the digital. Drawing from photography, painting, drawing, and digital processes, I construct visual narratives that explore the subconscious, the spiritual, and the instinctual.
Working primarily in digital and new media, I create complex compositions built from fragments of my own original works photographs, paintings, ink drawings, encaustic wax, ceramics and digital mark-making -layered into original, singular and immersive pieces.
Themes of psychology, dreams, folklore, animal symbolism, and sexuality run throughout my practice, forming a body of work that is both introspective and archetypal.
Each digital artwork is released as a once-off, high-quality print with a certificate of authenticity.
"All Sorts"
A digitally constructed artwork composed from the artist’s own photographs, paintings, and drawings, layered to create a singular, multi-dimensional piece.
Edition: Unique (1/1) archival print
"Tril-o-gie"
Hand-painted ceramic artwork created on bisque-fired clay, finished with an acrylic gloss varnish. Unique art piece rather than functional ware.
Edition: Unique (1/1) *Sold*
"He said, He said"
A digitally constructed artwork composed from the artist’s own photographs, paintings, and drawings, layered to create a singular, multi-dimensional piece.
Edition: Unique (1/1) archival print
Photography
Photography forms an integral part of my artistic practice. Here, the camera becomes a tool for interpretation rather than documentation – used to explore light, form, and emotion. The result is a body of work that exists both as standalone fine art and as a foundational element within my broader visual language.
Encaustic Wax
Encaustic wax is one of the oldest known painting mediums, dating back over 2,000 years to ancient Greek and Egyptian practices. The process involves heating a blend of natural beeswax and resin, which is then mixed with pigment and applied in molten layers to a surface – most commonly wood. Each layer is fused with heat, creating a luminous, tactile finish with remarkable depth and permanence. The medium allows for both precision and spontaneity: marks can be built up, scraped back, carved into, or embedded with materials, resulting in richly textured, multi-dimensional works.
In my practice, I use encaustic wax as a way to introduce physical depth and material presence – creating unique, one-of-a-kind pieces that echo the layered, transformative processes found throughout my broader body of work.
"Gaia's Void"
Layered encaustic wax, fused with heat, creating a tactile surface rich in depth, translucency, and subtle luminosity.
Encaustic on Birchwood, 20x20cm, framed.
Edition: Unique (1/1) Piece
Close-Up of Encaustic
Example of Photograph used for future use in digital artworks.
"Underground"
Layered encaustic wax, fused with heat, creating a tactile surface rich in depth, translucency, and subtle luminosity.
Encaustic on Birchwood, 20x20cm, framed.
Edition: Unique (1/1) Piece *Sold*