Katerina Larsen is an Australian contemporary figurative painter whose work explores the feminine psyche, where image and intimacy meet, and the self becomes both mirror and myth.

Working primarily in oil, she paints women suspended between the real and the cinematic: still, luminous, quietly electric. Her work traces the tension between presence and performance, and the space between what is seen and what is felt.

With a background in award-winning film direction and as founder of Catch The Bird, Larsen brings a cinematic sensibility to painting. Her practice spans art, film and storytelling, including Raising Light, the independent art-led publishing venture she founded to bring wonder, imagination and meaningful storytelling into childhood.

Originally from Tasmania and now based on Victoria's Surf Coast, Larsen is largely self-taught. Her paintings are held in private collections across Australia and internationally.

Author John Marsden described her work as “a beautiful and lyrical thing.”