My heart for the planet

During the past years of being an artist, I have put more and more focus on working with environmental questions. I have come to realize that this is what motivates and inspires me the most when it comes to creating new paintings and projects. Nature and animals have always been a very important part of my life and the more time I spend with them, read about them and learn about them, the more I realize how things in the world are changing. As one single person it is often hard to feel like you can make a difference when it comes to something that is affecting the whole globe, but every individual can surely do something. I feel like it is my call to educate myself as much as I can and spread my knowledge through the most international language of them all – art.

Climate change, global warming, rising sea levels, ice melts, desertification, deforestation, industrialization, pollution, fresh water scarcity, animals being and becoming critically endangered or even entire species going extinct, these are only a few of the dramatic things that are happening around us as a result from human activities. I want to explore the true connection we have with nature, and what consequences we are facing from our own actions. What we often tend to forget, is that while this is a major threat to our natural environment and the animals in it, when all of that is gone – what are we? Leopards, turtles, rhinos and other animals our grand children might one day ask us about are not the only species on the list of being threatened by climate change – Homo Sapiens are on there as well.

In this section I am sharing my thoughts behind my artwork included in this subject. I hope they can raise at least a little more attention to the crisis, and maybe even spark engagement inside of you too.