Category: Artist Interviews

Natalie Jane Parker creates highly detailed wildlife paintings that celebrate the beauty, personality, and diversity of Australia’s native animals and birds. Inspired by a childhood spent exploring bushland filled with possums, reptiles, birds, and towering eucalyptus trees, her work reflects a lifelong connection to nature and a deep appreciation for the natural world. Working primarily in acrylic on clay-coated board, Natalie carefully captures every feather, fur texture, water droplet, spider web, and habitat detail with extraordinary precision while maintaining a strong sense of warmth and life within each composition. Her paintings…

Nayeli Lavanderos creates intricate black-ink animal portraits that exist at the intersection of wildlife art, symbolism, healing, and personal transformation. Born in Mexico and now based in Portugal, her practice is deeply influenced by animal advocacy, shamanic traditions, and the Mexican concept of the nahual—the animal companion or spiritual mirror that accompanies a person through life. Each drawing begins with careful observation but unfolds through intuition, patience, and thousands of meticulously placed marks that slowly bring the animal’s presence to life. Working exclusively in black ink for much of her career,…

Robyn Palescandolo creates floral paintings that balance painterly realism with expressive brushwork, transforming flowers, fruit, and natural forms into deeply emotional experiences of beauty, wonder, and connection. Drawing inspiration from years spent studying art history, working as a designer, running a painting retreat in rural Italy, and continually returning to art throughout life's many changes, her work reflects both technical mastery and personal growth. Rich with soft pinks, lavenders, blues, greens, and luminous whites, her palette emerges from close observation of nature while gently heightening colour to capture emotion rather than…

Karen Gemming creates atmospheric watercolour landscapes that balance observation, memory, and intuition, transforming coastlines, rivers, mountains, and open wilderness into deeply calming emotional experiences. Having lived between New Zealand and Australia, her work reflects the influence of both places, from New Zealand’s rugged coastlines and lush green landscapes to the distinctive colours, heat, and light of Queensland. Alongside her representational paintings, Karen’s Dreamscape series allows water, pigment, and instinct to guide the process, creating works that feel both familiar and imagined. Working with carefully limited colour palettes, she builds paintings that…

Tine Rosa Ebdrup creates vibrant textile sculptures that merge coral-like forms, feminine symbolism, recycled materials, and intuitive making into deeply personal works about identity, fertility, vulnerability, and women’s power. Trained in fashion and textile design at Design School Kolding in Denmark, she returned to knitting during the pandemic and unexpectedly discovered an entirely new artistic language rooted in softness, bodily experience, and feminist reflection. Using recycled bedsheets, women’s clothing, tablecloths, yarn, and glitter thread, she transforms everyday domestic materials into organic sculptural forms inspired by female anatomy, sea anemones, corals, egg…

Sepideh Shahgholi creates deeply personal paintings and wearable sculptures shaped by memory, identity, migration, and emotional connection to place. Moving fluidly between abstract landscapes, layered mark-making, organic forms, and intricate sculptural headpieces made from wire and natural materials, her work explores how emotions and memories live within the body long after places are left behind. Rather than beginning with fixed images, her paintings emerge intuitively through feelings, smells, colours, and fragments of lived experience that slowly surface onto the canvas through layered marks and washes. Alongside her paintings, Sepideh’s wearable sculptures…

Victoria Curling Eriksson creates atmospheric oil paintings that move between seascape, landscape, and emotional memory, transforming coastlines, skies, forests, and shifting light into deeply calming visual experiences. Living on the northwest coast of Skåne in Sweden, surrounded by sea and woodland nature reserves, she paints entirely from intuition rather than photographs or sketches, allowing colour, atmosphere, and feeling to guide each work as it slowly develops through layered oils. Her paintings often begin with only an emotion or palette in mind, gradually evolving over many thin layers into compositions filled with…

Christiane Tabord Deillon creates abstract paintings that feel less focused on physical landscapes and more connected to emotional energy, intuition, and inner presence. Using powdered pigments, layered textures, flowing forms, and soft atmospheric compositions, her work explores invisible states of feeling rather than fixed narratives or places. Deeply influenced by mindfulness and meditation, Christiane approaches painting as both a creative and spiritual process, allowing emotional alignment and stillness to shape the energy of each work. Her relationship with materials is equally intentional, with handmade pigments and tactile surfaces becoming part of…

Mona Lisa Safai creates abstract works filled with movement, texture, and emotional energy, blending digital art, photography, and traditional painting into a layered visual language that feels both physical and atmospheric. Rather than focusing on narrative or recognizable imagery, her work invites instinctive emotional responses through scraped textures, shifting colour fields, and bold palette knife marks that hold traces of process and spontaneity. Moving fluidly between canvas and digital mediums, she explores how texture, light, and colour can communicate tension, softness, disruption, and calm before a viewer fully understands the image…

Rebecca Walker creates emotionally intuitive photography shaped by the wide skies, quiet prairies, and shifting seasons of Saskatchewan. Rather than chasing perfection or heavily posed imagery, her work focuses on presence, feeling, and the subtle emotional moments that unfold naturally between people and landscapes. What began over fourteen years ago as a way of preserving memories gradually evolved into a deeply personal and soul-led creative practice connected to healing, intuition, and human connection. Through portraiture, self-portrait work, and expansive environmental imagery, she explores themes of love, authenticity, vulnerability, and emotional presence…