J O S É P H I N E   K L E R K S 

Joséphine Klerks (b.1990) is an interdisciplinary artist and illustrator based in the Swedish archipelago. She works with a range of materials and practices such as painting, textile and performance art, as well as collecting and extracting earth pigments.

Central in Joséphine’s work is to explore and depict a deep belief in the wholeness and balance of the natural world through an animistic lens. Years of gardening (& motherhood) have brought her into a deeper relationship with living ecosystems, from soil to soul. She aims to awaken reflections around a regenerative worldview, rooted in care and compassion for earth and society, where ecological responsibility and reciprocity are central to creating a living sustainable future. Through her work, she encourages us to reimagine a more intimate relationship with Earth.

Her mixed ancestry of Finnish, Dutch and Indonesian, brings her into explorations of folklore, mythology and how to relate to spirit and place. During her creative process, she feels that her working hands and heart, are in direct conversation with the life force itself - a grand web of interrelatedness, animated by spirit.