Tag: experimental painting

Emma Eyre creates vivid botanical paintings inspired by the accidental compositions of plants she discovers on forest floors and along rural pathways in Sweden. Originally from Honolulu and now living in the Swedish countryside, she has built a creative life around teaching, raising a family, growing food, spending time in nature, and maintaining a consistent painting practice. Her recent On the Ground series begins with photographs of overlooked plants, nettles, reeds, thistles, and leaves before developing through translucent ink washes and layers of opaque oil paint. Rather than recreating nature photographically,…

Heidi Weiss creates paintings that sit between memory and interruption, drawing from paused television stills and transforming them into fragmented, emotionally charged compositions. Cropping, distortion, and layered oil surfaces allow her to withhold information, leaving viewers inside unresolved moments that feel both familiar and distant. Influenced by her background in painting and fiber art, her process embraces repetition, slowness, and accumulation, building surfaces that echo the instability of memory itself. Rather than telling complete stories, her work focuses on what lingers, the quiet tension, the partial view, the feeling that something…