Tag: mixed media art

Holly Hutton creates handcrafted botanical artworks using historic photographic processes such as cyanotype and platinum-palladium printing, transforming flowers and plants into richly textured images that celebrate both nature and the beauty of slow-making. Originally trained in fiber arts, she discovered alternative photography while exploring image-making on fabric, a turning point that continues to shape her multidisciplinary practice decades later. Rather than treating photography as a tool for instant capture, Holly embraces chemistry, paper, fabric, and light as active collaborators, allowing each print to evolve through experimentation and carefully balanced unpredictability. Her…

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…

Tine Rosa Ebdrup creates vibrant textile sculptures that merge coral-like forms, feminine symbolism, recycled materials, and intuitive making into deeply personal works about identity, fertility, vulnerability, and women’s power. Trained in fashion and textile design at Design School Kolding in Denmark, she returned to knitting during the pandemic and unexpectedly discovered an entirely new artistic language rooted in softness, bodily experience, and feminist reflection. Using recycled bedsheets, women’s clothing, tablecloths, yarn, and glitter thread, she transforms everyday domestic materials into organic sculptural forms inspired by female anatomy, sea anemones, corals, egg…

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…

Mona Lisa Safai creates abstract works filled with movement, texture, and emotional energy, blending digital art, photography, and traditional painting into a layered visual language that feels both physical and atmospheric. Rather than focusing on narrative or recognizable imagery, her work invites instinctive emotional responses through scraped textures, shifting colour fields, and bold palette knife marks that hold traces of process and spontaneity. Moving fluidly between canvas and digital mediums, she explores how texture, light, and colour can communicate tension, softness, disruption, and calm before a viewer fully understands the image…

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…

Irina Forrester’s abstract works move beyond representation, using shape, colour, and composition to explore identity in a way that feels both personal and open-ended. While rooted in classical training, her practice has evolved toward interpretation rather than accuracy, allowing emotion and atmosphere to take the lead. Her paintings often emerge from everyday observations, but they are distilled into forms that carry memory, presence, and feeling rather than literal meaning. A viewer once recognised a strong sense of female identity within her non-figurative work, revealing how her compositions can hold narratives even…

Abigail Hammond creates unapologetically raw work that confronts the realities of menopause through sculpture, video, sound, and installation. After a 35-year career in costume design for dance and theatre, her practice shifted into something deeply personal, using her own body as both subject and material. Through detailed Jesmonite casts, performative video, and immersive installations, she captures the physical and emotional intensity of menopause without softening or aestheticizing it. Her work challenges silence and stigma, prioritizing truth over comfort, and often sparks powerful conversations in both gallery and public spaces. Rooted in…

Cristina Rodriguez creates collages that transform torn paper fragments into powerful reflections on women’s identity and lived experience. Working entirely by hand, she cuts, tears, and layers found images to build compositions that feel both chaotic and deeply intentional. Her process mirrors the fragmentation of memory and the complexity of personal and collective narratives, where meaning emerges through juxtaposition and reconstruction. Influenced by literature, art, and lived experience, her work moves between vulnerability and resistance, inviting viewers to find themselves within the layers. Rather than presenting complete or resolved images, her…