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Cassie Christie is a multidisciplinary artist based in Midland Ontario, near the heart of Georgian Bay. As an occasional teacher, perpetual student, and lover of beauty in all things, Cassie seeks to explore forms of the natural world both in celebration of their beauty and preservation of their very existence.
Experienced mixed media artist and ceramist turned surface pattern designer with a passion for geekeries and oddities. The formal background in web design, print media and technical drafting as well as my multicultural roots all add a unique perspective to my creations.
I'm currently studying at Warsaw School of Information Technology in Poland. Most of my work is either digital art or pencil sketches, but I wanna try a bit of everything at some point. I've grown to love the subject of nature, because there are nigh endless ways to approach it. In my work I'm mostly inspired by medival linocuts and Yuko Tatsushima.
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Jessica Lazner is a biologist and artist from Melbourne, Australia, currently studying plant evolutionary genetics. While completing her BSc (plant science) and BA (philosophy), she worked as an herbarium (plant archive) curation officer. This led to developing a love for botanical specimen collections and the anthropological side of botany, inspiring her work. Representing a precise ecological moment between plants and humans, herbarium specimens seem to exist between life and death; conserved forever in stasis upon a page.
Katrina is a Forestry student in the University of the Philippines Los Baños. Her primary interest revolves around watercolor paintings, but she's currently exploring various traditional art media such as acrylic, oil paints, charcoal, among others. She is a huge enthusiast of Philippine native plant species. Yet, she believes that all plants are important in ecosystem given that they are planted in their rightful places.
My name is Keanna Kamlasaran. I am a 21 year old 3rd year student at York University, studying Visual Art. I focus mainly on surrealism and realism art. But, I am not limited to those. I use a lot of different mediums, but I favour graphite. After university I want to gain exposure in the art community, as well as other art related jobs, in order to build experience to get into Teachers College to be a highschool art teacher. My highschool art teacher really influenced me a lot to study art in the future, and I hope to do the same for the coming generations.
Lola Muñoz, visual artist and nature lover, after living in Mexico, returns to Spain fascinated by everything related to the development of the human being in an integral way. She currently lives in Valencia. She tries to transmute everything that was a trauma for her through art and show the healing part of nature. She feels that we have forgotten the values of the soul, by losing the sacred connection with our natural cycles, each artwork is a trip to her inner universe and the collective cosmos, which thinks that it has a seed full of beauty, influenced by metaphysical and spiritual currents, she only seeks to show the beauty of the natural world looking for the viewer to feel for a moment a little meaning in their lives. Art is a tool for social change and promotes more peaceful visions of existence.
My name is Ottavia Marchiori. I am an Italian visual artist, editorial illustrator and collage maker. I collaborate with several magazines both printed and on-line. I discovered collage art in my childhood and I reapproached it during the pandemic. All of my artworks are handmade. I love collage because it’s ductile, playful, popular and not elitist. My works are spontaneous, surrealistic, often permeated by humour: they reflect my vision of life and my approach to it.
My name is Roopa, I am a self-taught artist. I work predominantly in watercolours and ink. I have been actively creating art for the past 3 years in my hometown Davangere - Karnataka, India. Gardening is my favourite hobby that I inherited from my mother, so botanical sketches and botanical watercolours make a huge part of my work. Also, as a resident of an urban area I have a significant number of pieces on urban sketches in loose watercolour technique.