Strata is a series of mixed-media works made from natural pigments, earth, mineral powders, acrylic mediums, wax and oil — substances that carry the geological logic of the landscape in their physical composition. The process of making them is slow and repetitive: layer upon layer applied, pressed, etched and scraped away.

Time is built into the surface in the same way that time is built into rock strata, into soil. It is the sensation of nature that drives the work: The smell of soil after rain; The weight of a sky before it breaks; The way light transforms the perception of a place entirely from one hour to the next. These paintings try to hold both — the geological and the atmospheric — in the same surface.

The dense, compressed lower zones and the more open, light-holding upper zones in these works are drawn from that same doubled awareness: ground and sky, depth and surface, the slow time of strata and the fleeting time of weather.

All works 2026. Available for acquisition — enquiries welcome → kristienring.com/acquisition-enquiries

This painting is about the tension between ground and sky  — the weight of earth below, the light shifting above. Scored verticals rise through dense layers of mineral pigment: not marks made consciously but pressures released, the way growth pushes upward through compacted soil without knowing it is doing so.

Mixed media: natural pigments, papers, pastels, acrylics, wax, oil paint on canvas panel

24 × 30 cm — (optional) ‚pannello‘ open frame in beech wood as pictured

Price 480€

This piece is about the particular stillness on the ground before weather breaks, when the air smells of what the earth is about to release, when the clouds build above. Dense layers of grey, blue and earth tone have been worked until the distinction between above and below dissolves.

Mixed media: natural pigments, pastels, acrylics on canvas panel

40 × 50 cm — (optional) set in a ‚pannello‘ open frame in beech wood – as pictured.

Price 980€

This painting explores the geological — revealing the stratum under the surface layer of earth. A band of furrowed texture runs the full width of the panel. The palette is near-monochrome in earth tones. The depth of the cradled panel makes the work read as an object as much as a painting.

Mixed media: natural pigments, pastels, acrylics, wax, oil paints on cradled wooden artist panel

30 × 40 cm, depth: 3 cm — unframed

Price 680€

This is a painting about what is underfoot: the pale luminosity that filters through and the quality of new vegetation. Small in scale but dense with material presence — papers, pigments, wax and oil compressed into a surface that has the complexity of a handful of living soil. The 5 cm depth of the panel gives it a sculptural weight on the wall.

Mixed media: papers, natural pigments, pastels, acrylics, wax, oil paints on cradled wooden artist panel

18 × 24 cm, depth: 5 cm — unframed

Price 420€

This is a painting about what is underfoot: the ground itself as a living system, accruing and transforming. Small in scale but dense with material presence — papers, pigments, wax and oil compressed into a surface that has the complexity of a handful of living soil. The 5 cm depth of the panel gives it a sculptural weight on the wall.

Mixed media: papers, natural pigments, pastels, acrylics, wax, oil paints on cradled wooden artist panel

18 × 24 cm, depth: 5 cm — unframed

Price: 420€

This painting is about the synergies between the soil and plant mater. Warm ochres and golds intermingle. What we can not see in the sediment becomes the forground here. The smallest work in the series.

Mixed media: natural pigments, papers, pastels, acrylics, oil paint on canvas panel

15 × 15 cm — open shadow frame, white wood (5mm thickness, 10mm depth)

Price: 320€

A hillside in high summer — but the sky is already changing. Dark greens and yellow-greens press against a foreground of open, nearly unpainted paper, while the sky shifts from grey-blue to violet at its edges. The energy in the vegetation — scored, spattered, worked wet into wet — catches the restlessness of a landscape just before the atmosphere tips.

Watercolor 23 x 35 cm on Fabriano 300g/m2 Hot Press Satin

Available

Price: 180€    How to buy:

What it feels like to be in a place it at a particular moment is the source of my inspiration. The quality of light as it transforms the surface of a field. The way wind makes the landscape restless, legible only in movement. The smell of turned earth or dry grass that arrives before anything is seen. The slow shift of colour as the hour changes.

These are paintings of the conditions that make a place momentarily itself — the natural conditions that alter perception, that make the same valley or coastline feel entirely different from one hour to the next. The starting point is always a specific sensory experience, a moment of acute attention.

In the studio, that experience is translated into material process. Layers of papers, natural pigment, wax, and arcylic are built up, scraped back, reworked. What remains is a record of an encounter and the experience of the place.
All works 2026. Available — enquiries welcome → kristienring.com/acquisition-enquiries

Wind, rain, frost, sun — the forces that work on a surface over time, that make a landscape legible as duration rather than image. The surface of this painting carries those same forces: layers of earth pigment and wax built up and stripped back, a horizon line that has been arrived at through accumulation rather than drawn.

Mixed media: natural pigments, papers, pastels, acrylics, wax, oil paint on canvas panel

24 × 30 cm — (optional) ‚pannello‘ open frame in beech wood (5mm thickness × 10mm depth)

Price 480€