Artist statement;

Nature has been human canvas in many forms since ever, humans have always made symbolic gestures in landscape.

My intention is to celebrate our human dependancy on Nature to sustain life.

Working in nature is my form of meditation.

It reconnects me with land. I interpret the environment through my own sensibility, focusing on where and how I am in the moment of inspiration, leaving my traces in nature as geoglyph spirals, sigils, reinterpreted pagan symbols to evoke our distant ancestry and catch my own dispersed attention back to the place and my own wellbeing. Creating art in nature is for me simultaneously a spiritual and therapeutic ritual experience as much as it is artistic creation. I make ephemeral works that disolve in time by natural forces (rain, wind, decomposing).

I use principle of No harm or least harm to habitat possible in creation ( no alive plants, also taking care avoid small animals harm (insects, worms for expl.) and document my work the same way people create their family albums.

 
 
Spirals
  


Sea art in nature
  
 
Art in nature mix




 

ARTIST  BIO:

 Kristina Maškarin, island Rab Croatia 


Graduated at the School for Applied Arts in Zagreb, Department of Textile 1987, contined by several part-time courses in England during the '90-ties winning a 1st place at the student year exhibition in '92 at the Hampstead School of Arts, Camden, London.

Art background:
- traditional drawing and painting techniques;
- applied arts; / fashion styling & modeling,/ fashion desing, / textiles crafts ( dyeing, weaving), / photography, / silk-screen printing,
- mixed media, digital art

Exhibitions:
-1994-1997 group exhibitions and ex-tempore in Volosko and Grožnjan.

- 1st solo exhibition at the student campus Stjepan Radić art gallery in Zagreb in '95 under the leadership of art curator Ksenija Barunica.- 1996. participated on Stoke Newington Arts Festival, Mme Lillie Quarter century show. London UK- online art:Art Addiction 1st Medial Biennial, ISA - International Society of Artists, Rhizome.org, Absolute arts.com, Artmajeur, D'Art, Webism. - 2005 she won Award of Distinction / Prize of Excellence at the Art Addiction 1st Medial Biennial, London among 258 artists from 56 countries with 1857 artworks for her work RAYE.



In her own visual expression, combined techniques are recognised as her 'handwriting'; from traditional art & craft techniques, mixed media, to contemporary digital media, art activism and new technology. Kristina is interested in merging various areas (anthropology, humanism, history of art, cognition) with art and travel, she is combining multidisciplinary approaches to visual and creative expressions.
Since 2015, she withdrew from exhibitions in galleries and changed course of artwork, commiting herself to landscape art. Her artwork is ephemeral, located on remote island locations off the beaten paths, made in situ as impromptu land art.