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Changing light, wind moving through vegetation, the smell of earth or dry grass, the subtle shift of colour as the hour changes—all can transform how a familiar landscape is experienced.

I am fascinated by these fleeting conditions that make a place momentarily itself. The starting point is always a sensory experience, a moment of heightened attention rather than a particular view.

In the studio, I build, scrape back and rework—the surface accumulates and erodes much as the landscape itself does.
All works 2026. Available — enquiries welcome → kristienring.com/acquisition-enquiries

Acrylic combined with natural pigments, papers, wax, earth and mineral powders becomes less a paint and more a building material: something to layer, press, scratch into, work back. The surface accumulates decisions rather than recording a single gesture — each layer altering what came before, and in turn altered by what follows.

These works sit at the intersection of painting and materiality. The process is closer to geology than to traditional painting: time is embedded in the surface itself, visible to anyone who looks closely. In this way the medium and the subject are the same thing — both are about accumulation, erosion, the slow transformation of material over time.

This is also the medium where the connection between studio practice and permaculture work is most directly expressed. The same sustained attention to ground, to layer, to what lies beneath the surface, runs through both.

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