Category: Artist Interviews

Zarina Hagen is a Norwegian painter, photographer, and printmaker whose vibrant landscape paintings celebrate the emotional power of colour and the restorative beauty of nature. Working across acrylic, oil, watercolour, and printmaking, she transforms fjords, forests, gardens, and changing seasons into luminous compositions inspired by memory, intuition, and feeling. Drawing on her background in health and colour consultancy, Zarina believes colour can uplift, energise, and reconnect us with the natural world. Rather than painting landscapes exactly as they appear, she creates expressive scenes filled with radiant blues, glowing pinks, vivid greens,…

Kristi Radford creates layered photographic art that transforms flowers, leaves, light, and everyday moments into whimsical, dreamlike compositions. Photography has been part of her life since childhood, but through her creative practice at MisBeeHaven Designs she has developed a distinctive process of combining multiple photographs into richly textured digital collages that blur the line between reality and imagination. Working entirely on her phone, Kristi embraces experimentation, curiosity, and play, allowing ordinary natural details to evolve into imaginative visual worlds. Inspired by changing seasons, shifting light, reflections, and the quiet beauty of…

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…

At Women in Arts Network, Flora and Fauna reminded us that nature doesn’t always announce itself with grand landscapes or dramatic views. Sometimes it appears in a passing reflection, shifting light, or the quiet atmosphere of an ordinary day. Alisa Eykilis is one of the selected artists whose photography is built around noticing those moments before they disappear. Interestingly, photography wasn’t something Alisa originally set out to pursue as an artistic practice. She first picked up a camera simply to keep family members connected across long distances, sharing photographs of her…

Clair M. Gaston creates botanical paintings inspired by a lifetime of observing, gardening, and living closely with the natural world. Working in oils, gouache, and coloured pencil, she paints flowers directly from life, capturing not only their beauty but also the changing stages of their life cycles. As both a botanical artist and gardener, Clair approaches every bloom with curiosity, carefully studying its growth, pollinators, seed pods, and eventual return to the soil. Her work combines botanical accuracy with warmth and sensitivity, inviting viewers to slow down and notice the quiet…

Discover how self-taught oil painter Debbie Daniels transformed a lifelong fascination with the sea into a celebrated artistic career. From luminous seascapes to coastal landscapes, explore the journey, inspiration, and philosophy behind her remarkable work.

Agy Lee creates richly textured embroidered landscapes inspired by moss, coral, weathered surfaces, and the quiet resilience of nature. Working with free-motion embroidery, thread, fabric, and even concrete, she pushes traditional textile techniques into contemporary sculptural forms that blur the boundaries between drawing, embroidery, and installation. Originally trained in science, Agy brings experimentation and close observation into every stage of her practice, translating overlooked natural details into tactile artworks built stitch by stitch. Her work explores fragility, renewal, environmental awareness, and the surprising strength found in the smallest living systems. By…

Diana Strandin creates surreal collages that deconstruct the human figure and rebuild it through unexpected combinations of flowers, plants, photographs, and fragmented imagery. With a background in fine art, sculpture, and photography, Diana found collage offered the freedom to bring images from completely different contexts together and create new visual realities. Her work explores the connection between humans and nature while embracing contrasts between strength and fragility, attraction and repulsion, and the familiar and uncanny. Working with magazine cutouts and paper, she rearranges existing imagery into compositions where bodies merge with…