Lesia Mokrycke

Lesia Mokrycke is a landscape artist whose work has been featured in exhibitions across Canada and in the United States. Her poetic, creative and contemplative approach to environmental art focuses on shaping terrain, with a particular interest in water and trees. She works through drawing, painting and sculpture to organize space, creating works that range from installation, painting, new media and video, to large-scale environmental projects. Her recent work featured in the CBC, Building Conservation Networks, was awarded a Canada Council for the Arts grant for innovation in the arts. She holds an MFA in Art and MLA in Landscape Architecture from the Design School at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and a BFA in painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and UPenn. Born in Hamilton, Ontario, she is the founder of Tropos, a multidisciplinary art and environmental design studio, and a recent panelist on new methods of emerging practice at the International Landscape Collaborative Summit in Toronto.