ART AS A PRAYER FOR OUR PLANET
Bio
Ekaterina Sky is an artist. Working in watercolor and sustainable 24K gold leaf on archival paper, she makes what she calls impact art: work in which the painting and its effect on the living world are inseparable. Painting is the center of the practice. Installation, performance, and community engagement extend outward from it.
Her central series, Prayer for the Earth, is a body of visual prayers. Beneath the sustainable 24K gold leaf of each painting lies a universal prayer, written by hand and sealed from view, played aloud through a chip embedded in the work, so a viewer can listen to what they cannot read. Sacred geometry, gold ground, and sound make the paintings contemplative spaces rather than images alone. Related series carry the same cosmology outward. At the Core We Are One renders the genetic code shared by all living things as a sacred diagram, and Forests of the World paints the flying rivers, the vapor that forests breathe into the sky and that carries rain across continents.
The work was formed in the rainforests of Borneo, where Sky witnessed both the destruction of ancient ecosystems and the extraordinary effort being made to restore them. It proceeds from a conviction that painting can do more than raise awareness, and that beauty reaches people where data and argument do not.
Sky has exhibited at the Coral Gables Museum, shown and spoken at COP30, and presented Forests of the World on stage at Carnegie Hall. She works alongside conservation organizations and community leaders internationally, and a defined, receipted share of every sale supports forest protection.
“Creating Harmony Through Art”
Artist Statement
I create art as a form of prayer.
My work begins with a simple belief: that we are not separate from nature, but expressions of it. The forests, rivers, animals, and ecosystems that sustain life are not outside of us. They are part of who we are.
The images come to me in silence, through meditation and long vows of stillness, as though the living world were perceiving itself through my hand. I have come to call this practice Anima Mundi, after the ancient idea of the soul of the world.
My paintings are invitations to remember: to remember that beneath our differences, we share the same breath, the same Earth, and the same future.
In Prayer for the Earth, each artwork holds a handwritten universal prayer beneath sustainable 24K gold leaf. The prayers appear in many languages, reflecting a belief that care for the planet transcends borders, cultures, and religions. Through watercolor, gold, symbolism, and sound, the works become spaces for contemplation and reconnection.
I see art not as decoration but as a force that shapes culture. Throughout history, art has inspired movements, challenged systems, preserved memory, and expanded what people believe is possible. My intention is to contribute to that lineage by creating work that awakens reverence for life and inspires meaningful action.
In the language of art history, my work joins the sacred geometry of Emma Kunz and Hilma af Klint with the optical rigor of Op art turned toward devotion, and the natural-history symmetry of Ernst Haeckel, all in service of the living world. I call the practice impact art.
I am making a lifelong work: a permanent site where the natural world can be met as sacred, and where the ground it stands on is itself protected. It will take the rest of my life.
Ultimately, my practice is about relationship: with ourselves, with each other, and with the Earth that makes all life possible.
Every painting is a question: what kind of world are we creating with the life force we have been given?
Impact Art
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EKATERINA SKY
Profession: Artist
Email: artist@ekaterina-sky.com
Website: www.ekaterina-sky.com
SOLO & GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
Forests of the World, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY
MNTL, Wonzimer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Born To Be Seen, Jarrow & Goodman, Beverly Hills, CA
Forests of the World, Los Angeles Climate Week Opening Ceremony, The Ebell of Los Angeles, CA
Prayer for the Earth, The Art of Collecting, Jarrow & Goodman, Beverly Hills, CA
At the Core We Are One, Antidote, Sky Portal X, Los Angeles, CA
Forests of the World, The Unveiling, Immobilium, Beverly Hills, CA
2025
Raw Earth – Sky Portal X Gallery, Los Angeles
Ritual of Renewal – Sky Portal X Gallery, Los Angeles
Whisperers of the Earth – Art Share LA, Los Angeles
Beverly Hills Art Show, Los Angeles
2024
Prayer for the Earth – Seshine Art Gallery, Encinitas, CA
Sky Portal X Gallery, Los Angeles
Coral Gables Museum – Miami Art Week, Miami
SAB Gallery – International Women’s Day & Female Art Night, Los Angeles
Pershing Art Space, Los Angeles
Selected Earlier Exhibitions (2009–2018)
Animalize – Solo Exhibition, Montreal
Never Apart Gallery, Montreal
Visual Arts Centre, Montreal
Les Belles et Les Bêtes, Montreal
PUBLIC ART & MURALS
2025
Prayer for the Earth – Altadena, California
2024
Eden Forest Collective – Los Angeles, California
The Divine Gift – Mar Vista, California
2023
Life Force Mural Tour – Borneo & Bali, Indonesia; Burning Man, USA
2020
Movement: Paint City Peaceful – Black Lives Matter Mural, Los Angeles
2019–2020
Animalize Mural Tour – India, Vietnam, Thailand, Mexico, USA
PERFORMANCES & LIVE WORK
Prayer for the Earth – Life Force Loft & Gold Meditation Center, Los Angeles (2024–2025)
Uprise – Zebulon, Los Angeles (2025)
Interactive Painting – Echo Park, Los Angeles (ongoing)
TALKS & PUBLIC SPEAKING
COP30 (United Nations) – Forests of The World
Peace for Youth- Carnegie Hall – Forests of The World
Sostenidónos: Benefit Art Gala – Featured Speaker, Los Angeles (2025)
LA Climate Week – Opening Ceremony, Featured Speaker (2025)
Raw Earth Opening Ceremony – Sky Portal X Gallery (2025)
Uprise for Climate Action – Artist Talk, Zebulon LA (2025)
EDUCATION
Apollon Art Studio, Florence, Italy
Old Masters Techniques, 2025
University of San Francisco, USA
Certificate in Public Leadership, 2025
John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
B.A. International Business, 2012–2015
Tel Aviv Museum of Art Studio, Israel
Painting & Drawing, 2006–2009
Yaroslavl Art School, Russia
Classical Art & Art History, 2003–2006
COMMUNITY & LEADERSHIP
Impact Art Program Director, LA Climate Week (2025)
Founder, LA Creative Artists (25+ events, 2024–2025)
Host, Artful Impact Talk Series (2024–ongoing)
Fellow, Elected Officials Protect America (EOPA)