ABOUT
landscape and imagination
Please make yourself at home and explore -
artwork featured here is inspired by experience of the landscape and our ongoing relationship with the world around us
through imagination and story.
about
THE ARTIST
Krista Howell-Siemens (that's me) is an artist and art psychotherapist based in the Northwest of England. I love the intersubjectivity of art and how it helps us connect with and understand the world around us. Also love to explore, meander, ramble, climb and generally loiter in the outdoors.
about
THE WORK
Trees are our still, silent counterparts, rooted in the landscape.
Our ladders to the stars.
Trees have long provided a metaphor for the human condition as we search for our roots, branch out in new directions or turn over a new leaf.
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Their seasonal transformation can remind us of both our aspirations and our mortality.
They stand as monuments to bare existence, dedicated to growth.
Feet in the dirt, looking for the light, we are all, to some extent, planted here.
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We share some similarities in design with treeS
our basic physical structure
of trunk and limbs,
our interior landscape of branching blood vessels.
I play with these likenesses in raw material and organic form.
My work often has a narrative element,
hinting at the mythic resonance suggested in tree forms;
human-shaped hollows or the suggestion of cryptic creatures.
