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

The luminous yellow gestures perform as architectural interventions—insertions into a pre-existing terrain. They disrupt the pastoral continuity of the landscape, creating zones of attention and questioning the neutrality of nature.

The painting proposes that each field is already a site of layered histories, actions, and constructions.

Oil 20 x 20 cm on board

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This piece reflects the liminal space between night and day — a threshold where perception changes and forms emerge differently.

‚At the Shift of the Morning‘ examines how light transforms our sense of place.

Acrylic on bord 15 x 15 cm

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Nature is intrinsically local and grounds us in space and time. In the landscape of Tuscany, we can observe a delicate balance between the cultivated and the natural. The natural providing thresholds and borders between the cultivated.

Oil on canvas 30 x 50 cm

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Price: 500€   How to buy:

Oil paint holds light in a way no other medium can replicate. Its slow drying time allows for sustained working and reworking. The surface retains a luminous depth that rewards close looking.

These are the most directly observational works in the practice — made in response to specific places and specific moments of light: not just what the eye sees but what the whole body registers — the smell of warm earth, the movement of air, the shift of colour as the hour changes.

Oil allows me to follow that experience slowly.

Enquiries welcome → kristienring.com/acquisition-enquiries