Alegria

About the artist

Klara's practice begins with colour as both material and language. Through printmaking, painting, and collage, she explores the relationship between emotion, perception, and visual experience, with joy serving as a central and intentional presence within the work.Working intuitively, she develops layered abstract compositions through processes of accumulation, fragmentation, and translation. Printmaking plays a vital role in her approach, offering opportunities for experimentation, repetition, and material discovery. She works across monoprint, collagraph, and relief techniques, combining hand-painted elements with analogue and digital processes to create richly textured surfaces and dynamic colour relationships.Her background in counselling, fine art, and sustainable textile design informs an interdisciplinary practice that connects psychology, material process, and spatial experience. Travel, nature, and cultural narratives provide ongoing points of reference, distilled into abstract forms that evoke atmosphere, memory, and emotional resonance.Klara is particularly interested in the tactile and transformative qualities of printmaking and in the ways colour can shape sensory and emotional responses. Through her practice, she creates works that inhabit space with energy, sensitivity, and a sense of joy, inviting moments of connection, reflection, and discovery.

Klara Hinde is a multidisciplinary artist and designer based in Edinburgh, working under the name SO KLARA. Her practice spans painting, collage, printmaking, textiles, and interior applications, creating work that bridges fine art and design.She studied counselling and fine art before completing an MA in Sustainable Textile Design at Chelsea College of Art and Design. This diverse background informs her interest in the relationship between visual culture, material processes, and emotional experience.Since founding SO KLARA in 2014, Klara has developed a distinctive body of work characterised by bold colour, layered compositions, and an intuitive approach to making. Her practice has been further shaped through printmaking at Glasgow Print Studio and as a current member of Edinburgh Printmakers, where she works with monoprint, collagraph, and relief techniques.Her work has been shortlisted for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and exhibited in the UK and internationally. It has also been featured in publications including the Financial Times, ELLE and Homes & Property.In 2025, Klara was awarded the Clutha Trust Prize in recognition of her printmaking practice. She has also been selected for the Ironbridge Printmaking Competition 2026, further highlighting her growing presence within the contemporary printmaking community.Travel, nature, and cultural influences continue to inform her evolving visual language. Her work has expanded across original artworks, limited-edition prints, textiles, and bespoke pieces for interiors, with a focus on creating art that brings energy, joy, and a strong sense of place to contemporary spaces.

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About the artwork

Alegria%u2014the Spanish word for %u201Cjoy%u201D%u2014is a mixed-media print that combines monoprint, collagraph, chine collé, and blind emboss techniques. I created this piece intuitively, layering colour, texture, and shape in a playful and expressive way. The process felt spontaneous and freeing, inspired by the sense of openness, wonder, and imagination we often experience as children. For me, Alegria is about joy, freedom, and the uplifting energy of colour. I created it with the intention of evoking feelings of lightness, curiosity, and possibility, inviting the viewer to reconnect with a sense of wonder and delight.