Cornelia Simon Nutbrown

As both a research scientist and artist my work seeks to synthesise the worlds of conservation biology and abstract expressionism, exploring the fragile and complex relationships between humans and the natural world. My scientific background and current research in the genetics of rare and endangered species deeply informs my art practice. My art is a response to, and an attempt to process my emotions around, the climate change, biodiversity loss, fragility and resilience of the ecosystems I have studied.
Within my art pieces I like to play with textures, gestural mark making, and dynamic movement to capture the emotion of a fleeting moment within a landscape or ecosystem and blend abstraction with environmental storytelling.
Through my paintings, I aim to create a dialogue between science and art, inviting viewers to reflect on their own relationship with nature and through abstraction, I aim to evoke a sense of beauty, complexity, and loss, sparking a deeper social awareness of our collective impact on the natural world.