Tag: watercolour painting
Zarina Hagen is a Norwegian painter, photographer, and printmaker whose vibrant landscape paintings celebrate the emotional power of colour and the restorative beauty of nature. Working across acrylic, oil, watercolour, and printmaking, she transforms fjords, forests, gardens, and changing seasons into luminous compositions inspired by memory, intuition, and feeling. Drawing on her background in health and colour consultancy, Zarina believes colour can uplift, energise, and reconnect us with the natural world. Rather than painting landscapes exactly as they appear, she creates expressive scenes filled with radiant blues, glowing pinks, vivid greens,…
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…
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…