Rosalie Kohler
I draw, print and paint earth-inspired images, honouring Nature within and around us. My paintings arise from a deep reverence for the Earth and her seasons. I am inspired by the stories of the land that I hear whispering in the leaves and murmuring in the waters. Exploring the intersection between inner landscapes and the outer world, I seek to evoke the liminal spaces between waking and sleeping, the known and unknown. In our fast-paced societies dominated by technology, my paintings are an invitation to dream, to reconnect with a sense of enchantment, and tap into the power, medicine and beauty of nature. The Earth can soothe my soul like nothing else. Painting the Earth roots me into that sense of calm. It helps me rekindle hope that, despite all the pain and devastation in the world, we can rewild. My images are intended to support the process of remembering ourselves back into belonging with the web of life.
Although I have recently been adventuring into the territory of print, watercolour is my main medium. I paint dreamscapes, weaving together the tangible and more subtle layers through a combination of detailed fine line ink drawings and more expressive watercolour, embellished sometimes with gold leaf. My images are inhabited by wildlife, wild places and the wild feminine. They are often inspired by myth, folktale and the turn of the seasons.
Alongside a spectrum of watery blues, natural earth and plant pigments are coming to dominate my colour palette. I especially love to paint with wild pigments that I have foraged myself on lake shores and in woodlands. They allow me to enter more deeply into a sense of co-creation with the Living Earth, stirring in me an awareness of inter-being, something that I seek to express in my work.
