Sonya Else is an artist who creates nature-inspired textile-based works. Her art incorporates hand-dyeing, free-stitching, and embroidery to reflect forms found in nature. Sonya aims to let the natural environment unfold in her work through the materials she uses, allowing connections to place to present themselves, a form of nature revealing.

Having intimately experienced the impacts of flooding, Sonya believes her work can help reconnect people back to the importance of our river environments through observing and valuing the smaller details in our natural landscapes.

For Sonya, it’s important to come together to share stories and reconnect as a community through creative practice, and she does this through textiles-based artwork.