Tag: forest painting

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…

Katharine Dufault creates atmospheric landscape paintings that weave together observation, memory, and imagination to create places that feel emotionally familiar rather than geographically exact. Raised in the countryside near Cambridge, England, she developed a lifelong relationship with nature through countless afternoons spent painting outdoors with her artist mother, experiences that continue to shape her creative practice today. Working primarily in oil while also exploring watercolour, encaustic, monotype, and printmaking, Katharine begins with real landscapes before allowing intuition and memory to transform them into something entirely new. Trees, forests, rivers, rolling meadows,…