Through painting, she pays attention to the sensations that land, weather and seasons elicit, transforming their flux into successive layers of pigment bound in solution. Her paintings often feature subtle and shifting tonal variations, which seek to attune the audience’s senses to the soft sensations that play out at the periphery of our perception. Through a sustained engagement softening into the present, these slowly become palpable like a kind of atmospheric weight.

Enveloped by the sound of silence, the aim of her paintings is not representational, but evocative. Generative of an empathetic position, it is almost possible to hear the softly streaming light filter through the canopies, and to feel its caressing warmth seep into the surface of one’s skin.

Composition and decomposition equally shape Seraphina’s painting process. Sanded, peeled and cut away; layers of self-made paint become subject to erasure, to be mantled once again by pigment in solution. Similar to ecosystems, her paintings compose an ecology of interdependent materials: layers of seed lac rely on the luminance of sub-surface whiting, which relies on the animal glue it is bound within, in turn dependent on the support it mantels.

A spacious conversation unfolds between small and large scale paintings – forming dialogues of sensation. Each painting embraces the landscape in a gentle way, inviting a sense of intimacy with the land that lingers on long after.