This portfolio gallery features art that was created as a body of work either as a series or in a small set. The mediums and themes vary, but a love of nature is always a central piece to the work. To contact Victoria about setting up a gallery showing for art series, please use the website contact form.
Trees of Time
The “Trees of Time” series is ongoing and due to be completed by July 2021. What started out as a single painting in August of 2020 then became a monthly piece to share. Each piece features a single tree, but the colors and theme changes with each month, representative of both the changes in nature and the changes in the artist’s life through that month.
Each piece is meant to be free-flowing and experimental. There is no pre-conceived plan of exactly how each painting will end up at the end. The elements that pull them all together are the dark trunks and branches of the trees themselves and the circular backdrop that they sit within. Every piece uses watercolors and a variety of other mediums in conjunction with the watercolors to create experimental patterns and colors.
Pollinate: Celebrating Pollinators in Nature & Agriculture
“Pollinate: Celebrating Pollinators in Nature & Agriculture” was a seven piece series of paintings created in 2014 to create a sense of appreciation for the native pollinators that live in Massachusetts and New England. The set was hung in the Easthampton, MA Chamber of Commerce and part of the Art Walk Easthampton event that summer. Victoria collected donations for local Massachusetts organizations CISA (Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture) and Kestrel Land Trust during the event to further support the protection of pollinators and their habitats. The series features seven pollinators native to New England and plants that they thrive and survive on, including butterflies, hummingbirds, bees, and moths.
This series is now available for sale as prints in the Weyakin Designs online shop. Each purchase will donate 10% of proceeds to a local land trust or environmental charity.
Diptychs and Triptychs
These sets of paintings are small 5″x7″ pieces that were created for the Easthampton City Arts+ Small Works Shows. They feature images of animals and trees with a soft whimsical feel, giving the viewer a sense of awe and wonder about the beauty of nature. All paintings were created with watercolors on hot pressed watercolor paper.
Guardians of the Birch
In a colorful display, the outlined silhouettes of deer prance through a magical birch forest. Each piece fits together with the next, but they also can stand alone. Organic textures of purple, blue, and green in watercolors give a sense of changing seasons and changing times of day.
Nature Nights
A wolf and a snowy owl look out silently from their places in the cold forest night. These majestic animals are some of the most maligned and revered creatures of North America. They are predators but also beautiful keepers of balance in nature. Soft textures and muted colors give a sense of twilight and night time in these watercolor pieces.