Tag: human form

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…

Carola Helwing creates paintings that carry the memory of movement, shaped by her background in dance and deep understanding of the human body. Beginning with photographs of dancers, she transforms gesture into something more internal, capturing not just how movement looks, but how it feels from within. Her figures exist in a delicate balance between strength and fragility, where tension, control, and release unfold quietly across the canvas. Colour plays a central role, sometimes soft and atmospheric, other times bold and vivid, including pop tones that bring her work into a…