Artist Statement

​My current practice investigates relationships between botanical forms, vessels, and the feminine body, using plant imagery and container-like structures as metaphors for agency, containment, and interdependence. Drawing on my background in floristry and ceramics, I construct layered compositions that merge painting, collage, and inking, allowing materials and process to partially determine outcomes. This relinquishing of control mirrors broader questions of authorship, embodiment, and the agency of non-human systems.
My imagery moves between the familiar and the speculative, presenting vessels and plant forms that suggest both domestic intimacy and ecological otherness. Through these hybrid forms, I consider how bodies, environments, and symbolic structures co-create meaning. 

Artist Bio

​Krisanne Souter (b.1979, Canada) investigates the autonomy of materials, botanical forms, and symbolic structures of femininity. Drawing on her background in floristry and ceramics, she constructs layered compositions that blend painting, collage, and inking, allowing materials and process to partially determine outcomes. This engagement with material agency mirrors broader questions of authorship, embodiment, and the interdependence of natural systems.
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Souter’s work has been collected internationally and exhibited in Canada, including the FCA Toronto Invitational Juried Art Show. An active exhibiting member of the Federation of Canadian Artists, she is represented by Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles. Her practice is rooted in Northern Ontario, near Lake Superior, where she continues to explore surreal and abstract water-based works on paper.

Representation
Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, USA

Selected Exhibitions & Art Fairs
2025 – Affordable Art Fair, Austin, USA
2023 – Federation of Canadian Artists Toronto Invitational Juried Exhibition (online)
2023 – Federation of Canadian Artists Showcase (online)

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015 – Jade Wellness Gallery Space, Sault Ste. Marie, Canada
2013 – I Am Here, Southampton Art Gallery, Southampton, Canada

Awards & Recognition
2011 – Best in Show, Feast for the Eyes Juried Exhibition, Southampton Art Gallery
2010 – Visionary Award, Feast for the Eyes Juried Exhibition, Southampton Art Gallery
1997 – Frank Panabaker Award for Arts, Ancaster, Canada

Publications
2024 – CBC Arts, “Hi, Art” feature
2022 – Artists on Couches interview
2005 – Articulations, Volume 22, Issue 5

Collections
Works held in private collections in Canada and internationally

Professional Membership
Federation of Canadian Artists, Exhibiting Member (2022–2026)

Commissions
​Selected private commissions in Canada

Full CV available upon request