Working in acrylic on canvas, Kirsten Treis creates vibrant, multi-layered paintings that focus on nature and landscape, often highlighting wildflowers and garden flowers at various stages of bloom and decline. Drawing from spontaneous, everyday observations first documented with her camera, she is especially attentive to light and the presence of insects—bees, bumblebees, and butterflies frequently appear throughout her work. Treis’s approach merges a modern, realistic style with elements of semi-abstraction, allowing underlying colors to show through successive layers of paint. Based in the Rhineland, she donates 3% of her artwork sales to nature conservation projects.