Colleen Hoffenbacker
Colleen Hoffenbacker presents floral motifs to explore the evolving relationship between nature and technology, utilising both traditional and digital mediums to capture the delicate essence of the natural world.
With a commercial art background and more than 20 years of experience painting from nature, Hoffenbacker possesses a profound understanding of the intricacy and beauty of nature and the impact of human activity on the environment.
She says: “I create paintings thatenvision a fertile, fantastical garden and reflect the beauty, transformative power and diversity of the natural world. The ethos and spirit of imagination that emerged in the Renaissance holds great significance in my classical oil painting technique. My floral compositions reflect on the early machine age’s admiration of nature’s visual order and the potential of our contemporary machine-learning era to reveal new perspectives.”