Vinessa Redford is an emerging Canadian artist exploring contemporary approaches to painting florals and landscape. Raised in rural northern Alberta, she developed a lifelong love of wildflowers and the untamed boreal forest. This early influence was nurtured by her late grandmother, who fostered her connection to the natural world.

Her visual art journey began in fine art photography, with exhibitions in Athens, Hanoi, Melbourne, and New York. She began painting in 2021 and, working both in studio and en plein air, has developed an artistic practice defined by meditative, experimental, and lyrical mark-making. Inspired by the xieyi principles of Chinese brush painting that emphasize essence over realism, she draws on this as a conceptual influence while exploring palette, texture, and semi-abstract forms in both watercolour and oil, working alla prima. Fine art photography remains an integral part of her creative process.

She shares an intimate view of her process on social media as @pigmentsandmood. She is currently based in Toronto, Ontario.