Artist Bio
Kaya Heyman is a multidisciplinary artist working across mixed media, painting, and linocut printmaking. With a background in architecture and design, her practice combines spatial thinking, material experimentation, and symbolic forms to explore identity, transformation, and embodied experience.
Her work examines the tension between control and surrender, structure and intuition, perception and subconscious recognition. Through a process-based approach informed by design systems present in nature and a respect for craft, she creates works that investigate the relationship between the physical and inner worlds.
Rooted in honest expression rather than decoration, her practice uses making as both a reflective and restorative act — a way of navigating personal and collective experience while questioning how reality is perceived, constructed, and perhaps even shaped from within.
Elements
Elements is the first series of abstract paintings where Air, Water and Fire engage in a powerful dance of forces. Emerald green, cobalt blue, and fluorescent orange become their intuitive expressions. The works reflect the process of an inner transformation and symbolise a rebirth of identities: on a personal level and as an artist.
In the dust and chaos of creation, the forces fight and produce scarrings all over the canvas, eventually reaching balance in stillness. Bearing bursts of energy visible from up close and delightfully soft from a distance, the Elements echo ancient nebulas formulated on the scale of an inner landscape, at the dawn of Becoming.
About the linocut printmaking
Mirrors, collage made out of linocut prints and acrylic paint on board, about 45×28cm, 2026
Each piece is hand-pressed with love and attention. Most of the series are limited (up to editions of 11 original prints). A certificate of authenticity is included to each artwork.
Bringing art, beauty and reflection to your heart and soul is my desire and mission as an artist. My collectors resonate deeply with the works, often feeling uplifted and hopeful while experiencing my pieces.
the Awakening series
This series of linocut prints was created in the dark night of the soul. The colour black, for many years avoided by the artist, was the only suitable expression for these works. It symbolises the earth, soil: as a cradle for decay and embracing its power to bear new life.
Making this series was a way of processing emotions, naming and confronting fears, expressing the frustration with the dominance of technology and a search for a new mindset that would help to build a more satisfying relationship with contemporary reality.
The Awakening is showing the importance of holding space to experience and honour a dark period in life in order to set the new roots, a foundation for a more abundant and aligned reality.
My works are hand-printed and drawn explorations of memory, intuition, identity, and inner landscapes.
