

Episode 191: Victoria Beyer – Art and identity
Victoria is a Chilean artist based in Germany. Her botanical art balances scientific accuracy with creative freedom, exploring themes of social masking, neurodivergence, female identity, and belonging.
Listen to hear more about:
- Victoria’s early connection with nature and creativity.
- Moving from Chile to Germany and how art helped her connect with her new environment.
- Studying botanical art by correspondence.
- The joys and challenges of working with live plants.
- The botanical artists that have influenced and inspired Victoria.
- The differences between traditional and contemporary botanical art.
- Working from pressed herbarium specimens.
- Victoria’s relationship with ‘perfectionism’.
- The tools used by botanical artists.
- Colour mixing ‘recipes’.
- Victoria’s body of work exploring identity and the experience of social masking.
- The reason why Victoria feels an affinity with orchids.
- Victoria’s online course Botanical Watercolors: Learn to Paint Realistic Flowers.
You can find Victoria on her website (www.victoria-beyer.com) and on Instagram @victoria_botanical and @victoria.beyer.artist.
Learn from Victoria in her online course Botanical Watercolors: Learn to Paint Realistic Flowers.
Sign up to Victoria’s mailing list to receive a 10% discount on her artwork, an art catalogue and more!
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