Tag: memory in art

Mairéad Robb's vibrant paintings grow from a deeply personal relationship with nature. Inspired by childhood memories of Ireland's landscapes, flowers, forests, and wild spaces, she transforms everyday details into expressive works filled with colour and feeling. For Mairéad, nature is more than a subject—it is a place of memory, comfort, healing, and belonging. Her paintings encourage us to slow down and notice the beauty we often pass without seeing, from changing moss and delicate leaves to sunlight moving through trees. Through bold colour and close observation, she creates work that celebrates…

Jane Bauman's creative practice brings together painting, photography, mixed media, found materials, and personal history. From her early experiences with art and the East Village art scene of the 1980s to her current studio practice, Jane has built a body of work shaped by curiosity, experimentation, and transformation. She often revisits old works, discarded materials, childhood images, and studio remnants, allowing fragments of the past to become part of something new. Her fascination with apophenia the human tendency to find patterns and meaning in unrelated things also plays an important role…

Elena Sparke creates contemporary textile books and sculptural artworks that bring together antique fabrics, natural fibres, handmade paper, and traditional book forms to explore memory, language, and cultural heritage. Although her formal art practice began only seven years ago, a lifelong connection to literature, textiles, and craft traditions has shaped the thoughtful, multidisciplinary work she creates today. Working with handwoven linen, hemp, botanical dyes, hand stitching, handmade books, and found materials, Elena treats cloth as a language capable of communicating stories beyond words. Nature quietly informs every stage of her process,…

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,…

Karen Gemming creates atmospheric watercolour landscapes that balance observation, memory, and intuition, transforming coastlines, rivers, mountains, and open wilderness into deeply calming emotional experiences. Having lived between New Zealand and Australia, her work reflects the influence of both places, from New Zealand’s rugged coastlines and lush green landscapes to the distinctive colours, heat, and light of Queensland. Alongside her representational paintings, Karen’s Dreamscape series allows water, pigment, and instinct to guide the process, creating works that feel both familiar and imagined. Working with carefully limited colour palettes, she builds paintings that…

Sepideh Shahgholi creates deeply personal paintings and wearable sculptures shaped by memory, identity, migration, and emotional connection to place. Moving fluidly between abstract landscapes, layered mark-making, organic forms, and intricate sculptural headpieces made from wire and natural materials, her work explores how emotions and memories live within the body long after places are left behind. Rather than beginning with fixed images, her paintings emerge intuitively through feelings, smells, colours, and fragments of lived experience that slowly surface onto the canvas through layered marks and washes. Alongside her paintings, Sepideh’s wearable sculptures…

Victoria Curling Eriksson creates atmospheric oil paintings that move between seascape, landscape, and emotional memory, transforming coastlines, skies, forests, and shifting light into deeply calming visual experiences. Living on the northwest coast of Skåne in Sweden, surrounded by sea and woodland nature reserves, she paints entirely from intuition rather than photographs or sketches, allowing colour, atmosphere, and feeling to guide each work as it slowly develops through layered oils. Her paintings often begin with only an emotion or palette in mind, gradually evolving over many thin layers into compositions filled with…

Isabel Aguado creates atmospheric landscape paintings that move between observation, memory, and abstraction, transforming hills, valleys, grasses, and distant terrain into emotional spaces filled with rhythm and movement. Growing up surrounded by countryside and mountains deeply shaped the way she experiences nature, teaching her to notice shifting light, changing colours, and the quiet structures hidden within the land itself. Working from her own photographs, she begins with real places before allowing gesture, loosened brushwork, and layered colour to gradually reshape the image into something more intuitive and emotionally charged. Earthy ochres,…

Anna Klatt creates atmospheric landscapes that feel less like physical places and more like emotional states suspended between memory, softness, and transformation. Moving away from strict realism and technical perfection, her work embraces scratches, layers, blurred forms, and unfinished surfaces that hold traces of vulnerability and lived experience. Influenced by intuition, photography, and personal reflection, she paints from emotional memory rather than direct observation, allowing mood and atmosphere to guide the image. Collections like Nature Dreaming, Fragments of Becoming, and Winter Calm reveal her interest in honesty over perfection, where landscapes…

Jo Morris creates luminous dreamlike landscapes that blur the line between memory, atmosphere, and abstraction. Inspired by a lifetime spent moving through deserts, coastlines, mountains, and wide Australian skies, her paintings no longer document specific places but instead capture the emotional feeling of being within them. Working intuitively with water-based inks, watercolours, sprays, and pigments, she builds soft horizons and glowing layers where blues dissolve into purples, pinks into oranges, and landscapes drift gently between reality and imagination. Rather than painting directly from photographs, Jo works from memory, allowing emotion, light,…