Flora and Fauna
Virtual Exhibition + Interview
Right now, somewhere overhead, birds are travelling thousands of miles using instincts people still do not fully understand. A flower is pushing through cracked pavement. Roots are spreading underground in directions no one can see. The natural world keeps moving, adapting, and reorganizing itself constantly, whether people notice it or not.
Flora and Fauna is a virtual exhibition by Women In Arts Network that brings together artists interested in those quiet relationships between humans and the living world around them.
Some works begin with close observation, the shape of leaves, patterns on insect wings, shifting light across water, tangled branches, animal movement. Others begin from something more personal. A memory connected to a garden. Comfort found in animals during difficult periods. The feeling of distance inside large landscapes. Fear attached to deep water or dense forests.
One of the most interesting things about nature is how differently people experience it. The same place can feel comforting to one person and isolating to another. A field of wildflowers may suggest freedom, nostalgia, loss, or impermanence depending on who is standing in front of it. The works in this exhibition hold space for those different readings rather than narrowing them into one message.
The exhibition also avoids presenting nature as something untouched or idealized. Flowers bloom while ecosystems struggle. Oceans hold beauty alongside pollution. Animals adapt to environments shaped heavily by human presence. That tension appears throughout the works naturally, without forcing conclusions.
The artists included here approach flora and fauna not as decoration, but as subjects connected to memory, survival, emotion, instinct, and change. Some works feel intimate and attentive to detail. Others feel expansive, restless, or uncertain.
Together, the exhibition becomes less about observing nature from a distance and more about noticing how deeply embedded it already is within everyday human life.
Exhibiting Artists
Room 1
Alexa Roche | Alisa Eykilis | Amanda Gough | Andrea Derujinsky | Anna Gren | Anne Mason-Hoerter | Asli Kinsizer | Asya Ovchinnikova | Azra Kalyoncu | Bee Brookes | Bela Dalal | Belinda Amelia Rahardjo | Birgitte Korsager Knap | Cara Enteles | Carin Wagner | Chloe Farrant | Chloe Gregory | Clair M Gaston | Claire Jevanoff | Clare Celeste Boersch | Debs Last | Dede Lifgren | Delaney Shin | Denise Doggett | Diana Budler | Diana Casanova | Diana Strandin | Dinorah Graue | Elena Sparke | Emma Eyre | Emma Graham | Erin Bell | Eunice Oladeji | Eva Valkova | Evi Antonio | Fiolitza Widia Cahyani | Gaby Roter | Gala Gilan | Geetika Gupta | Gerda Zimmermann | Greeshma Patel | Helena Mellberg | Holly Hutton | Ilse Krukle | Inge M Frank
Room 2
Abigail Carman | Agatha ‘Agy’ Lee | Izabela Maliszewska-Skiejka | Jane Bøgelund Pedersen | Jessica Bernert | Jillian Cheong | Jing Hua | Jules Kobelin | Jutta Biesemann | Katharine Dufault | Kerry Schroeder | Kim Mason | Krista Charbonneau | Lena Widmann | Lenny Pelling | Linn Mann | Linnea Pergola | Lisa Hilpold | Lorena Valentina Paialunga | Loucia Serghiou | Louise Saunders | Maria Elvira Faciolince | Marie De Janon | Marijean Harris | Marissa Lazar | Megan Stueber | Megan Taylor | Melissa Guillet | Michelle Dumas | Myriam Vanroy | Naomi Diamond | Nat Crook | Natalie Parker | Natalie Toplass | Nayeli Lavanderos | Nefiland By Angie Vanezi | Nidhi Charan | Rachael Murphy | Regina Bos | Rime Kaiy | Ritamarie Cimini | Robyn Palescandolo | Sarah Drew | Sarana Khoo | Sepideh Shahgholi | Shannon Arbogast | Sharon Wells | Sucheta Misra | Susan Neil | Svea Hambitzer | Terri Macdonald | Tessa Moldan | Tina Suszynski | Tine Rosa Ebdrup | Yael Dresdner | Анастасия Yablokova
Exhibition Note
People often talk about nature as though it exists somewhere far away, in forests, mountains, oceans, places separate from ordinary routines. But most human lives are filled with small interactions with the natural world every single day, even in cities.
Birds gather on electrical wires. Plants grow through concrete. Light changes the mood of a room by the hour. Weather shapes memory more than people realize.
Flora and Fauna stays close to those kinds of observations.
The artists in this exhibition approach nature from very different perspectives. Some focus on detail and physical form, following textures, movement, colour, and repetition closely. Others move toward atmosphere and emotional association, where landscapes and creatures begin carrying feelings that are harder to describe directly.
Throughout the exhibition, nature never settles into one role. It appears calming in one work and unpredictable in another. Certain pieces feel grounded and familiar, while others create distance or unease. That shifting perspective becomes part of the experience of moving through the exhibition itself.
There is also a strong sense of movement running quietly through many of the works. Migration, erosion, growth, decay, seasonal change, adaptation. Even still images often carry the feeling that something is continuing just beyond the frame.
The exhibition does not ask viewers to arrive at one fixed interpretation. Instead, it leaves room for personal connections and memories to enter the work naturally. A certain landscape may remind someone of childhood. An animal may feel symbolic to one viewer and completely ordinary to another.
That openness is important here.
Flora and Fauna is ultimately interested in attention, in looking more carefully at the living systems, environments, and small details people gradually stop noticing once they become part of everyday life.
Welcome to the Virtual Exhibition
