Nina Cherney is a Montreal-based artist who paints abstracted landscape and still life paintings. Whether their focus gathers beneath a tree line or atop a kitchen table, her works are less invested in resemblance than in the quality of connection—of stillness and discovery—that such vistas can produce. The pulse of morning, the humming of the trees, nature’s clever flourishing: each captures a kind of inner weather.

In this way, hillside and horizon are not so much about the changing seasons as they are the journey that Nina shares with the viewer. Far from the chatter of human voices, nature feeds us. When Nina returns from a walk in the woods, she is at once energized and still. This gift of awe is what she seeks in my work, the way that shape and colour can create a common language.