Daria Shipukhina

Daria Shipukhina

Mixed Media Artist

My architectural background informs a structured approach, yet I embrace spontaneity and chance as essential to the process.

This openness invites experimentation, a vital aspect of my artistic practice by embracing unpredictability and fluidity, allowing the work to evolve in unexpected directions, much like natural processes. Through exploring the line as both structure and expression, my work positions it as a foundation—defining space, directing movement, and implying order—while simultaneously allowing it to break free as a gesture of emotion and memory.

My practice explores the tension between the synthetic and the organic, drawing on the apocalyptic potential of the natural world. Working with layered materials—paints, inks, raw pigments, plaster, and oil sticks—I create strata-like compositions that resist traditional, handmade aesthetics while still referencing natural forms.

My background in architecture strongly influences my artistic practice, particularly my interest in the line. In architecture, lines serve both functional and expressive roles—defining structure, guiding movement, and shaping spatial relationships.

In my work, I explore the duality of the line as both a structural foundation and a force that challenges its own boundaries. When drawing meets the freedom of painting, new gestures emerge—ones shaped by the tension between order and disruption, structure and intuition. These lines move beyond form and structure, expressing something deeper and less defined.

Engaging with nature in my artistic practice allows me to reinterpret its processes—growth, decay, transformation—as metaphors for creation. I explore themes of renewal, entropy, and change through organic forms, flowing lines, and asymmetry. Landscape fascinates me for its duality: both abstract and figurative.

I’m drawn to a vision of nature pushed beyond tolerance—erupting into broken, semi-abstract forms as it reacts to human interference. This disruption becomes central to my work. It suggests a future where nature, damaged and displaced, seeks new shapes rooted in its origins—raising the question of how we would respond.

Inspired by the apocalyptic shifts in nature, my work explores synthetic, layered compositions built from intuitively mismatched materials—paints, inks, natural pigments, plaster, and oil sticks. This synthetic process resists the handmade yet returns to natural forms that erupt and reveal their raw essence.

A technogenic approach shapes both method and material choice. I celebrate the fluidity of organic shapes through viscous textures and earth-based materials like coal and clay that create a tactile connection to landscape and memory. Layers and washes form overlapping structures, creating a tactile visual language.

Embracing chance and spontaneity, my practice balances structure and intuition, where drawing and painting converge into expressive, evolving forms.Through fluid lines, layered washes, and shifting textures, I seek a visual language that captures both the disintegration and resilience of nature.

The convergence of drawing and painting becomes a space where structure meets intuition—where unexpected, expressive forms emerge.

Projects

Sea and Rocks

Nature's Cycles

Lucence

Florals

Installations

Urban Experiments

Infinite Loop