Tag: environmental art

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…

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…

Izabela Maliszewska-Skiejka brings together botanical illustration and video game environment design, creating artwork where scientific observation and digital world-building naturally complement one another. Fascinated by flora and fauna since childhood, she moved from traditional drawing into organic 3D modelling before discovering botanical illustration, a discipline that now sits alongside her work in the gaming industry. Her recent paintings focus particularly on marine life and seaweed, celebrating the intricate forms, shifting colours, and quiet beauty often hidden beneath the water's surface. Working primarily in watercolour while also exploring mixed media and digital…

Jillian Cheong creates vibrant paintings and textile collages inspired by Singapore’s extraordinary biodiversity, transforming everyday encounters with birds, insects, tropical plants, and urban nature into joyful celebrations of colour and discovery. A former biology teacher, she combines scientific observation with expressive artistic storytelling, encouraging viewers to slow down and notice the remarkable wildlife often hidden within familiar surroundings. Her richly layered compositions are filled with intricate botanical details, luminous birds, and playful patterns that reward close looking and invite a deeper connection with the natural world. More recently, Jillian has incorporated…

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…