Tag: palette knife painting

Erin Bell creates oil paintings inspired by the mountains, forests, lakes, open skies, and changing weather she has experienced while living and travelling across Canada. Her relationship with landscape is deeply personal, shaped by years of moving, searching for belonging, and finding moments of quiet and clarity in nature. After returning to painting more seriously during a difficult period in her life, Erin began using the easel as a place to slow down and reconnect with what she was feeling. Working primarily in oils, she uses brushes and palette knives to…

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…

Nena Lang creates paintings that feel less like images and more like emotional presence. Built through layers scraped, pressed, and reworked with knives and rigid rulers, her works give form to what cannot be spoken moments when holding everything inside becomes impossible and painting becomes the only way forward.