Malle Leis 1940–2017 From Evening to Evening, from Morning to Morning. 1992

Malle Leis’s range of interests did not swing from one extreme to another; instead, she was deeply engaged with the botanical, aesthetic, and symbolic layers of the plant world. She did not shy away from strong and striking color contrasts, which gave her works a distinctly pop-like sense of vibrancy and joy.

In addition, Leis, together with her husband Villu Jõgeva, developed a unique serigraphy technique. It is described on a website dedicated to Malle Leis as follows:

“Her signature is a unique silk-screen printing technique, invented in collaboration with her husband Villu Jõgeva, in which elements of painting and graphic art are combined. While the emergence of printmaking introduced the possibility of producing artworks in large and extremely rapid editions—and in the West, artists’ screen prints reached thousands of copies—Leis was fascinated not by large-scale reproduction, but rather by the technical possibilities of printmaking and its clean, precise lines.”