Tag: nature inspired art
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…
Annett Coumont creates atmospheric watercolour paintings that transform forests, mist, reflections, and fading light into emotional spaces filled with stillness and connection. Living in Germany’s Bergisches Land region, she draws inspiration from daily walks through woods, meadows, and quiet landscapes where shifting weather, birdsong, and changing light become part of her visual language. After a serious illness in 2023 forced her away from professional life, painting became both a refuge and a turning point, reconnecting her to creativity in a deeply personal way. Her approach to modern watercolour moves far beyond…
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,…
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,…
Valeria Ocean creates luminous oil paintings that transform waves, reflections, and shifting light into emotional landscapes suspended between realism and abstraction. Rooted in childhood memories of annual trips to the Black Sea, her connection to water became less about depicting a place and more about expressing inner emotional states through movement, atmosphere, and texture. Working with a deliberately limited palette, often just four or five tubes of paint, she builds meditative surfaces where subtle shifts in light and color carry a remarkable sense of depth and calm. Rather than painting wide…
Faye Johansen’s practice begins with attention to nature, to material, and to the quiet traces things leave behind. Working across watercolour, collage, and handmade journals, she builds surfaces that carry both process and place. At the centre of her work is a powerful series of one hundred charcoal portraits of Indigenous children, drawn onto discarded books layered with torn maps, music notation, and fragments of text. Each material holds meaning, speaking to displacement, memory, and loss, while charcoal allows the faces to remain both present and fragile. Alongside this, her journals…
Selected for our Birds exhibition, Gitta Pardoel brings decades of architecture and garden design into her art, creating spaces that feel alive with memory, movement, and the quiet presence of nature. Her work reflects a deep understanding of how living forms shape atmosphere, where birds become part of a larger story of space, freedom, and connection.
Some paintings ask you to admire them. Sally Edmonds’ work asks you to look back. By removing every distraction, she brings you face to face with a bird as an individual present, aware, impossible to ignore. What seems simple at first becomes something else entirely: a moment of recognition, where a subject you’ve overlooked your whole life suddenly feels personal.
Malu Urruspuru paints from instinct rather than concept. Her birds, animals, and faces emerge from feeling, not performance offering a deeply human reflection on creativity, limitation, and the strength found in beginning again.