Hi - my name is Vivienne and I am a fine artists creating contemporary and environmental art.
I am also an arts educator. My art is a hymn to nature and the environment. Nature is my
inspiration for my work and also for my lifestyle. I am fascinated and keep learning about a
holistic lifestyle, homeopathy, herbalism, aromatherapy, Japanese forest bathing and nutrition.
I love food and appreciate how fruit and vegetable are coming directly to us from nature.
I am just in the process of framing a piece that was selected as a runner up winner for
TOAST in their recent Rewilding campaign. It will be displayed in their Marylebone shop soon.
The project they chose is a painting of truffles that are part of my environmental art project
Magic Hour where I document plants that are endangered or extinct in our food chain.
I painted the truffles with Japanese sumi ink. They can’t be cultivated and have become very
rare and are in some places already extinct. They only grow in a few regions in Italy and
Central Europe. The main reason for their decline is climate change. Truffles need constant
humidity during the summer. The well-distributed annual rainfall pattern has changed and
they are now exposed to very heavy rainfall. Another factor impacting truffle growth is the
high demand on producing more wine, which results in deforestation. If only wineries would
recognise that increasing biodiversity on the edges of the vineyards would be more beneficial - as truffles would soon grow again and the wine quality would also improve.
Without fungi, nutrients would not cycle through the ecosystem, causing the breakdown of
the entire food chain!
Here are three more paintings of plants in our food chain that face extinction due to climate
change: Avocado, coffee and cacao.
And endangered flowers, often associated with childhood memories from my project Sunrise-
sunset: clover, poppies and a buttercup.
The environmental topic has an urgency and through my art I hope my audiences might view
some aspects of the natural world they might not have been thinking of.
The complexity of the environmental crisis challenges me to find my voice on how to capture
and depict the (still) familiar flowers and plants in our food chain that might be soon lost
forever.
Visual art is a good way to teach awareness of the urgency to protect certain species.
I am also documenting plants over the twelve month of our year with ink and printmaking. I
look at the botanicals trough my knowledge of the Japanese micro seasons. They celebrate
instead of 12, 72 different ones and these are split again into five - day divisions, which I find
so fascinating, because once I started to look closely I realised there is a lot of change in five
days in nature. Each divisions have their own names and colours, starting in the early spring
in February. They match up more locally with the climate in Japan, but I see a lot of parallels
here in London. The sections were written in 1685 by the astronomer, Shibukawa Shunkai.
He presents a poetic journey through life in Japan through their seasons.
I made some of these paintings available in my online shop Atelier Parallel, which runs parallel
to my original fine art.
These prints are my interior decorating and styling project. Bringing nature inside and
hopefully making us appreciate what we have around us maybe just a little more.
The Etsy story is my interim project and the new online store with ready available art prints,
posters with nature quotes, cards, art walls and a beautiful home collection with pillows, silk
scarves etc. will open very soon. Here is a small glimpse of what is to come…
Nature Is The Inspiration - vivienneschadinsky@mac.com
Fine Art - vivienneschadinsky.com
Art Prints and Posters - atelierparallel.com
Fine Art Publishing - fleetandrhine.com
Art Classes and Workshops - vivienneschadinsky.com/pages/art-classes
