I’m Katerina Larsen - a painter, director, and seeker drawn to the places where image and intimacy collide, where the feminine psyche becomes both mirror and myth.

I work primarily in oil, painting women suspended between the real and the cinematic - still, luminous, quietly electric. My work explores the tension between presence and performance, between what is seen and what is sensed. Each painting holds the stillness of a film frame and the voltage of emotion, tracing how beauty, power, and presence unfold in a hyper-visual world.

My background in film direction continues to shape how I see. I founded Catch The Bird, an award-winning creative studio producing campaigns and films for arts organisations and global brands, and recently co-presented Youth Truth Beauty Fame Boredom, a pop-up exhibition exploring image culture and identity.

Originally from Tasmania and now based on the Surf Coast of Victoria, I’m mostly self-taught - long obsessed with figures, light, and the quiet charge between them. My paintings have been featured on The Block (Channel 9) and are held in private collections across Australia and internationally. Author John Marsden kindly described my work as “just perfect - a beautiful and lyrical thing.”

Across every medium, my mission is the same: to create art that reminds us who we are, and the light we carry x