Virtual Exhibition - Still Life

Marie Laforge creates imaginative mixed-media collages using vintage books, discarded magazines, and found paper to build playful visual worlds where people, flowers, animals, and everyday objects meet in unexpected ways. Growing up in the French Alps before studying Graphic Arts and Advertising in Paris, she discovered that collage offered a unique freedom to reinvent existing images and allow curiosity, chance, and imagination to shape each composition. Rather than beginning with a fixed narrative, Marie lets every collage evolve naturally as unrelated fragments find new relationships and meanings. Her work celebrates transformation,…

Julia Kulish creates large-scale floral oil paintings inspired by childhood gardens, flowing botanicals, and a lifelong belief in the importance of beauty. Raised by artist parents, her creative journey began painting murals on her children's bedroom walls before evolving into immersive contemporary floral paintings filled with movement, colour, and hope. Influenced by Dutch still-life painting and William Morris, Julia fills her canvases with twisting vines, bold blossoms, and expressive compositions that invite viewers into the joyful abundance of nature. Rather than painting flowers as decoration, she uses them to explore memory,…

Alexa Kleinbard creates vibrant oil paintings that celebrate forests, wetlands, wildlife, native flowers, and the intricate relationships that sustain healthy ecosystems. For more than four decades, she has explored biodiversity through richly layered compositions where birds, insects, trees, mammals, and waterways exist as interconnected communities rather than isolated subjects. Inspired by childhood experiences surrounded by gardens, beehives, and migrating birds, Alexa combines careful research, field observation, and environmental advocacy to create immersive paintings that encourage viewers to see nature as a living network. Working primarily in luminous greens, teals, blues, and…