Mixed media artist, Christina Mrozik has always been intrigued by the natural world. Her fantastical illustrations combine flora and fauna. Flowers grow out of an owl’s head or twist around a snake’s body, transforming them into imaginative creatures living in a fairy tale landscape.
Graduating from University with an emphasis in illustration, Mrozik has worked with multiple international galleries. She primarily makes drawings, often composed from watercolor, graphite, acrylic, and ink, and is currently based in Portland, Oregon.
“I’m in pursuit of liminal spaces, listening, patience and quiet,” explained the artist in an interview with Flesh & Bone Magazine. “I think art speaks in ways that words cannot and there is power in both metaphor and image; that there are vague but intense places of emotion and intention that need more room and less definition so that we can exist as the overflowing, messy beings that we are.”
Mrozik says that “we all carry frustrating truths and fears and it’s better to untangle and look at them head on rather than deny them for the sake of false stability. There are infinite ways to do this, but art is how I parse the world and these are the things I hope my work could even begin to hold in it’s subtle, quiet metaphors.”
