About the artist

Karin Wolff's artistic journey spans four continents and decades of creative exploration, with nature as her constant muse and art as her form of meditation. From her earliest childhood drawings in Brazil to her current studio practice in Amsterdam, art has remained a constant thread throughout her life's diverse chapters, always anchored in her deep observation and translation of the natural world.

After studying at UFGRS Visual Arts Institute, where she explored drawing, painting, and ceramics, Karin embarked on a thirty-year immersion into philosophy and yoga that took her across South America, Europe, Southeast Asia, and Oceania. This contemplative period, while seemingly distant from her artistic practice, would later prove fundamental to her understanding of light, shadow, and the deeper rhythms that govern both nature and human perception—and to her approach to painting as a meditative practice.

The pandemic years in Australia marked her return to professional art-making. Through courses at universities and art schools, she began researching Aboriginal Australian art, discovering profound connections between its ancient visual language and her own emerging vision. Surrounded by Australia's unique flora and drawing from influences ranging from European masters like Monet and Van Gogh to Indigenous traditions, her distinctive style crystallized.

Now based in Amsterdam, Karin works with a more solidified artistic voice that bridges her Brazilian heritage, her global experiences, and her profound connection to the natural world. For her, each painting becomes a meditative dialogue with nature—drawing inspiration from natural forms, rhythms, and the ever-changing interplay of shadow and light, then translating these observations into her own visual language. Her abstract landscapes emerge through rhythmic, pointillist-like brushstrokes that create mesmerizing patterns of color and depth. With an intuitive talent for combining forms and hues, she transforms her contemplative observations of the natural environment into substantial large-format compositions that command presence in any space.

Her spiraling works in vibrant greens and golds reflect not only the lush environments that continually inspire her, but also the meditative process through which she translates nature's essence onto canvas, creating pieces that offer both immediate visual impact and deeper, more contemplative qualities.