Carmen Samoila is a multidisciplinary artist based in Western Canada, working across painting, cyanotype, and analog and digital photographic processes. Her practice unfolds as an inquiry into perception, presence, and the shifting thresholds between inner and outer worlds. With a...
Read MoreCarmen Samoila is a multidisciplinary artist based in Western Canada, working across painting, cyanotype, and analog and digital photographic processes. Her practice unfolds as an inquiry into perception, presence, and the shifting thresholds between inner and outer worlds. With a foundation in sculpture and an evolving practice in fluid media, she embraces both material experimentation and intuitive states of heightened awareness.
Deeply attuned to landscape and the textures of human experience, Samoila’s atmospheric oil paintings—such as those in the Vale series—evoke emotional and energetic terrains through charged gestures of light and form. Her cyanotypes and photographic works continue this exploration, drawing from elemental processes and botanical matter to reveal layered stories of place, body, and spirit.
Her work reflects a kind of poetic anthropology—mapping not only our relationship to the natural world but also to the unseen architectures of memory, sensation, and the mind’s interior landscapes. Forms emerge through motion and attunement, in moments when clarity rises from intensity. Across media, her practice invites resonance—offering spaces where energy, stillness, and transformation coexist, and where meaning stirs beneath the surface of the visible.
