Zaria Forman’s Hyperrealistic Icy Landscapes
How many shades of blue are there? Judging by Zaria Forman's hyperrealistic paintings, too many to count. Focusing mainly on icebergs as they converge with oceans, her landscapes document the jarring effects of climate...
These Installations Raise Questions About Man’s Overuse of the Environment
Amanda Parer creates ephemeral art installations that incorporate light and humor. Her installations include massive sculptures of animals (specifically rabbits) as well as humans. These aim to stimulate the viewers’ imaginations while offering scope...
Aurora Robson Tackles the Problem of Plastic Waste Through Art
The sheer amount of plastic waste is staggering. According to the United Nations Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Pollution (GESAMP), land-based sources account for up to 80 percent of the world's...
Kate Shaw’s Landscape Painting Take Her Around the World
Kate Shaw's passion for landscape painting began when she traveled to Central Australia. “A visit to Central Australia in 2004 really helped me coalesce ideas about the materiality of paint and how this could connect...
Emily Paluska’s Handcrafted Paper Bouquets are Something Else
According to paper artist, Emily Paluska, flowers are a sort of natural glue that keeps us connected to where we came from and where we’re going. An admirer of flower gardens, Paluska invites nature...
Sonja Hinrichsen’s Art Requires Snow and a Pair of Shoes
Sonja Hinrichsen's art addresses our relationship with the natural world – as we perceive it and interact with it. Examining urban and natural environments through exploration and research, her artwork spans from video, performance,...
Nana Re-imagines Succulents as Adorable Bears
Nana also known as Nakanoart on social media is an artist who “draws cuties, creepies and sillies.” However, when she is bored she likes to scroll through Twitter. Not that long ago, she came...
These Landscape Paintings are Part Impressionist, Part Expressionist
Early on, painter Erin Hanson made a promise to herself: every week, for the rest of her life, she would complete one painting. Using a unique technique of placing impasto paint strokes without layering,...
Karen Fitzgerald Explores the Light Side of the Moon
Karen Fitzgerald’s artwork has an ethereal quality to it. Centered around the moon and its cycles, her paintings are round, luminous, and often gilded, intentionally other-worldly, inviting viewers to look skyward but also, within...
Explore Carolyn Hutchings Edlund’s Landscape Paintings
Carolyn Hutchings Edlund admits to finding creative stimulation in unlikely places, such as a city street bathed in glistening or late-day light following a rain shower. “Such stimuli are the seeds from which ideas...