Tag: environmental art
Lenny Pelling creates highly detailed pencil drawings that blend wildlife observation with storytelling, transforming Australian animals into memorable characters filled with personality, humour, and emotional depth. After leaving a corporate career in 2016 to pursue art full-time, she developed a distinctive practice that combines meticulous draftsmanship with a deep love for Australia’s unique wildlife. Rather than portraying animals as static subjects, Lenny imagines them living rich, relatable lives, whether it’s skinks sharing conversations, birds navigating daily adventures, or wombats going about their routines. Her work balances playful visual narratives with a…
Michelle Dumas transforms forgotten thrift-store paintings into dazzling contemporary artworks using thousands of individually applied sequins, breathing new life into vintage florals, landscapes, portraits, and found treasures. Rooted in a love of thrifting, upcycling, and creative reinvention, her practice challenges traditional ideas about value, beauty, and permanence by rescuing discarded artworks and turning them into vibrant, light-filled pieces that constantly shift with their surroundings. Working through an intensely time-consuming process, Michelle carefully builds layers of colour, texture, shimmer, and pattern that invite viewers to slow down and experience the work from…
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…
Annett Coumont creates atmospheric watercolour paintings that transform forests, mist, reflections, and fading light into emotional spaces filled with stillness and connection. Living in Germany’s Bergisches Land region, she draws inspiration from daily walks through woods, meadows, and quiet landscapes where shifting weather, birdsong, and changing light become part of her visual language. After a serious illness in 2023 forced her away from professional life, painting became both a refuge and a turning point, reconnecting her to creativity in a deeply personal way. Her approach to modern watercolour moves far beyond…
Faye Johansen’s practice begins with attention to nature, to material, and to the quiet traces things leave behind. Working across watercolour, collage, and handmade journals, she builds surfaces that carry both process and place. At the centre of her work is a powerful series of one hundred charcoal portraits of Indigenous children, drawn onto discarded books layered with torn maps, music notation, and fragments of text. Each material holds meaning, speaking to displacement, memory, and loss, while charcoal allows the faces to remain both present and fragile. Alongside this, her journals…
Selected for our Faces exhibition, Limor Dekel creates striking sculptural faces using cardboard and repurposed paper, transforming discarded materials into expressive works full of life and movement. Trained in ceramic design at Bezalel Academy, her practice blends craftsmanship with experimentation. What began during the pandemic as a practical solution for teaching evolved into a defining artistic language rooted in freedom and sustainability. Her layered forms carry human energy, gesture, and emotion, often inspired by her background in dance and observation. By elevating humble materials, she challenges how we value both art…
Patricia Frederick makes a mark on canvas and then waits to see what it wants to become. In this interview, the retired art educator talks about her process-based approach to painting, the difficulty of trusting gut feeling over years of design training, and how her work has turned into a way of investigating consciousness. She discusses what happens when paintings show her thoughts before she recognizes them, why she stays away from anything resembling a horizon line, and what she means when she says her work is supposed to act as…
In this interview, Lebanese visual artist Rania El Osta speaks about moving from Medical Sciences to painting, the influence of family memory, and why birds and old houses continue to appear in her work. She shares how observation, color, and lived experience shape her process, and what it means to carry images of Lebanon beyond its borders.
In this interview, Sokhna Mariama talks about migration, nature, and working across different mediums. She shares how her life between Dakar and Italy shaped her way of seeing, how ideas guide her process, and how her projects invite people to take part rather than only observe.
Five muralists from different backgrounds share how they shape public spaces with care, patience, and a strong sense of place. Their murals appear in airports, schools, city blocks, and small businesses, each shaped by real conversations and grounded attention to the communities they work with.