Welcome to my world! I’m Silvina Lanusse, contemporary artist, living on the beautiful coast of Vancouver Island, Canada.
About me
I am a Painter ∙ Intuitive Mixed-Media Collagist ∙ Storyteller Through Art ∙Soulful Modern Artist
I create PaperScapes — layered torn paper landscapes built slowly by hand. Using torn paper the way a painter uses brushstrokes, I compose texture, movement, rhythm, and depth into works inspired by memory, place, and emotional connection.
Originally from Argentina and now rooted on the West Coast of Canada, my work lives in the space between landscapes, histories, and lived experience. The turquoise waters that remind me of distant shores, the forests and coastlines I walk today, and the emotional terrain of longing, belonging, and home all find their way into my work.
Each PaperScape is created intuitively. I tear, arrange, layer, and respond slowly until the landscape begins to emerge — not as an exact place, but as a felt one.
I am an exhibiting member of the Federation of Canadian Artists, and some of my artwork has appeared as cover art for poetry collections, where image and language meet through rhythm, texture, and emotion.
About My Work
My art is shaped by distance, memory, and the experience of carrying multiple places within me at once.
The landscapes I create are inspired by coastlines, forests, lakes, and paths I return to again and again, but they are also emotional landscapes — reflections of connection, solitude, transition, and the quiet search for belonging.
Paper became my language because it allows me to build slowly and intuitively. Every torn edge holds movement and energy. Layer by layer, colour and texture begin to behave like brushstrokes, creating depth, atmosphere, and rhythm across the surface.
I create for people who feel deeply connected to place — for those who have loved across distances, started over, lived between cultures, or found pieces of themselves in different corners of the world.
These works are meant to offer pause. A quiet place to land. A reminder that beauty, meaning, and connection can emerge slowly over time.
My Creative Process
I work intuitively, without fully knowing where a piece will lead me.
A PaperScape often begins with a feeling — a coastline remembered, a walk through the forest, the stillness of water, or simply a colour relationship that asks to be explored. From there, I build the surface gradually through torn paper, layering texture, shape, and movement until the work begins to settle into itself.
There is something both delicate and grounding about the process. Tearing paper slows me down. It asks me to listen more closely and control less.
What emerges is not simply a landscape, but an atmosphere — something observed, remembered, and emotionally lived.
My Creative Journey
Painting what words can’t hold
I create for people who crave beauty with depth, for those who feel the ache of separation but still believe in connection. For those who need solitude as much as they need love. For those who’ve lived many lives, carried many roles, and are learning how to bring all their pieces back together.
Each painting is a place to land, even if it shows up loud, bold, and maybe a little wild. It’s like a deep breath with jazz hands. Life gets messy, and my art doesn’t try to hide that. It just says “Hey, there’s beauty here too.” People tell me it makes them feel seen, or like it’s echoing something they didn’t have words for. That feels like magic to me.
My art? it’s kinda fearless, kinda out there, but it’s also got this sneaky side. It’ll wiggle its way into your brain, stick around in your feels, and then just hang out in your memories.
That whole quiet-but-whoa thing?
Yeah, that’s pretty much me in real life too.
Whether it’s for your walls or someone else’s heart, come find a piece that sticks to the soul. Ask me about art with a spark, a gift that leaves a mark.
Who This Work Speaks To
If something in my work feels quietly familiar to you, there is probably a reason for that.
These landscapes often resonate with people who carry memories across distances, who feel connected to more than one place, or who long for art that feels personal rather than decorative.
I think many of us are searching for spaces that help us feel grounded and connected again — spaces that hold warmth, reflection, and presence.
That quiet recognition, the feeling that a piece already belongs to you somehow, is the connection I hope to create through my work.
Commissions and Collaborations
Oh, and I’m part of something pretty special
In 2016 and 2018, two of my artwork were chosen as cover art for poetry books by Shannon McEwen, an honor that felt like a true meeting of image and word. These collaborations celebrated the shared language of texture, emotion, and story.
I’m also an exhibiting member of the Federation of Canadian Artists, a community I’m proud to be part of. It’s deeply affirming to share my work alongside artists across the country who are just as passionate about exploring and expressing through art.
