Virtual Exhibition- Flora and Fauna

Nadja Eleonora Milsten’s work sits in the space between doubt and trust. Her watercolor figures feel present but unfinished, shaped as much by emotion as by restraint. Some of her strongest paintings are the ones she almost abandoned—set aside for months until time changed how she saw them. Moving from oils to watercolor during a turning point in her life, she stopped painting for expectation and began painting from instinct. Her practice isn’t about certainty. It’s about letting doubt exist, stepping away when needed, and trusting that what doesn’t make sense…

Sara Jacob paints from the collision of cultures, memory, and lineage. Moving between Berkshire, Nigeria, and the North of England, she never tried to simplify who she was. Instead, she built her practice inside the friction. Using indigo-dyed cloth, ancestral symbolism, and even her grandmother’s original oil paints, her work holds history as material, not metaphor. In her paintings, migration is not just movement across land it’s what continues to travel through the body, across generations, refusing to settle into one story.

Nena Lang creates paintings that feel less like images and more like emotional presence. Built through layers scraped, pressed, and reworked with knives and rigid rulers, her works give form to what cannot be spoken moments when holding everything inside becomes impossible and painting becomes the only way forward.