ABOUT | I am Nature

Artist Statement - The Core of My Practice

At the heart of my practice lies an interplay between spirituality, art, and nature – three dimensions that do not exist separately, but flow continuously into one another. I regard them as living processes, where the creative, the perceptive, and the sensory form a single, interconnected field.

Spirituality represents a connection to the invisible, to silence, and to an inner intelligence pointing toward wholeness. Art becomes the movement itself – a language beyond words, where experiences take form through material, color, and rhythm. Nature is both mirror and source; a space for presence, transformation, and a reminder that all life is woven together.

Through this trinity, I seek to explore how art can function as a bridge – between consciousness and matter, between the human being and the living landscape. My works invite slow contemplation, an encounter with stillness, and reflection on our place within the greater whole.

I have always had a deep inner calling to see, understand and communicate. It has led me deep and far on my artistic journey, to develop and run a major art school and to many major exhibitions. With this inner drive, I also developed a deep understanding of soil and cultivation, and for nature and climate change. These directions

have been like large rivers that over time have flowed together and become one. Today I use art to express the feelings I have for nature, My spiritual relation to nature and that I am one with nature, that I am nature.

For a long time, I was very affected by the destruction of nature and climate change, engaged on social media, picked up plastic on beaches and did otherwise what I could. Today I see the devastation, I experience climate change, but an understanding has emerged that we humans need to identify with nature in a different way in order to be part of the changes, we need to get a deeper inner realization that we ourselves are vulnerable, that we ourselves are nature. That the damage we create on an external level also harms ourselves.

There is a vulnerability in transcending the notion of a distance between us and 'it' – nature, that 'it' should be something other than us, there is no such 'boundary' between us and what we call nature. We must recognize that the dualistic relationship between inner and outer reality is not real. We are all one, the same energy, the same breath and that makes us vulnerable.

My artistic work has therefore turned towards conveying the feeling I myself have of being in nature, being nature and nature's intrinsic value and beauty. My life today is a communion with nature, what is me, what I breathe, what shapes me, what is out there is the same as in me– it is me.

So my artistic work is a form of nature activism, I'm trying to convey a deeper realization of nature, an 'Iamnature'.

Thank you for reading.
Eva Kurseth