Carmen Samoila is a multidisciplinary artist based in Western Canada, working across painting, cyanotype, and analog and digital photographic processes. Her practice unfolds as a sustained inquiry into presence, memory, and the shifting thresholds between inner and outer worlds. Beginning in sculpture, and following a period of personal transformation, she has re-emerged with an expansive approach that embraces both material experimentation and poetic reflection.

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Deeply attuned to the landscape and the textures of human experience, Samoila’s atmospheric oil paintings—such as those in the Echoe series—explore emotional terrains through shifting light and form. Her cyanotypes and photographic works further this exploration, grounding ephemeral moments in physical process and botanical matter, revealing layered stories of place, body, and spirit.

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Her work is informed by a reverence for the interconnectedness of all things—a quiet anthropology of our shared culture and collective memory. Through deliberate, process-driven creation, she seeks to uncover and articulate the unspoken, inviting viewers into a dialogue with presence, absence, and transformation.

 

Samoila’s practice is a meditation on the threshold: where perception wavers, where form dissolves, and where the intangible is felt. Across media, she offers a space for stillness and reflection—a place where light emerges from shadow, and meaning arises from the subtle interplay of material and memory.

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