✷ BIOGRAPHY ✷
Audrey Bird [they/them] is a painter and illustrator born in the Blue Ridge Mountains, now residing on the East Coast. Hailing from the wilds, Bird’s work is heavily influenced by their reverence for nature. Bird works primarily with gouache, acrylic, graphite and digital to tell visual narratives through their work.

Bird excelled at art classes when they were younger, most notably in Piedmont Virginia Community College, where they took drawing class for dual credit in their senior year of high school. From there, Bird has been primarily self taught, both in art and in business. Bird has taken several client commissions and has had select work published in Midsummer literary magazine, and runs their art business lune through their newsletter, mail club and commissions.

✷ ARTIST STATEMENT ✷

lune is what I call my art entity; it is the place where my work is born, both in my mind and in some distant forest bathed in moonlight. The forest represents my connection to the element of earth, and the moon represents my connection to the element of water.
I view my artistic work as a portal into my inner universe. My work has two sides; one where I dream up surreal, ethereal visions, and the other where I express the reality in which I live. Across all of my work, I create visuals inspired by nature, the art nouveau movement, science-fiction, and fantasy.

The guiding light for my work is Nature. I live my life by the philosophy of nature, and so I create my art through the philosophy of nature. My art touches on a range of topics important to me, from the natural beauty of life, to my own experiences with mental health, and the state of the world. My personal experience as a non-binary lesbian also informs my work, offering underrepresented perspectives of sapphic love, gender identity and intersectional feminism. Showing female and gender-non-conforming subjects from a view of complexity and power in my work is very important to me.

✷ MEDIUMS ✷

I primarily work with mediums such as gouache and acrylic paints and graphite pencils. I prefer to work on watercolor paper for my paintings, but will sometimes use canvas.
Occasionally I also work with alcohol marker, paint pen, watercolor pencil and colored pencil. For digital art, I use Procreate.

AI STATEMENT

I am anti-artificial intelligence and anti-NFT when it comes to the art world. Art by definition is created by humans, and AI imagery can only be generated, not created. By definition, generating images means blending and taking from what already exists, which is not an act of creation.

My work is protected and may not be used for the training of artificial intelligence, in the generating of AI imagery, or NFTs. If any of my original work is used for AI training or generating, or NFTs, legal action may be taken. I have the right to be compensated for any stolen work.