Building more just & sustainable futures through

CREATIVITY

& COMMUNITY

Sylvie Stojanovski (she/her) is an award-winning mixed media artist, creative facilitator & community organizer based in Tkarón:to/Toronto, Canada.

Welcome to all things earth, art + community.

Hi, I’m Sylvie

A painter, forager, and community builder with a deep love for the outdoors. My art is inspired by the myriad of relationships we have with the contemporary natural world—from the transience of reflections on water, to the complexity of memories of the land we hold from childhood.

Using materials I forage, like raw pigments and plants, alongside materials gifted by friends and family, I create abstract mixed-media paintings. Each piece becomes a collaboration with the materials I work with, reflecting the unique textures, rhythms, and stories held in my body, the land and the waters around us.

My journey into sustainable art began when I witnessed the river I grew up beside being polluted with motor oil. That moment shifted something in me. It changed how I think about our relationship with the earth. The earth is not something separate from us, but a living system we are part of and responsible for protecting.

Since then, my work has become a way to honour our relationships with the planet and explore what it means to be human within an ecosystem.

Whether you’re here to explore my artwork, learn to create with natural materials, or join a workshop, I hope you feel at home — and leave inspired to connect more deeply with yourself and the natural world.

Take a glimpse into my process.

  • had a blast creating this CNE themed mural yesterday. Thanks @letsgototheex! If you visit the grounds today, be sure to snap a picture. It’s only around till the end of the day! 👀😱

#muralart #publicart #outdoorart #endofsummer #letsgototheex
  • inspired by some time in the woods 🌲🌱✨

I’ll be honest, with the rise of AI, rest feels more important than ever. Taking time to just be alive, to be human, to create, to spend time with friends and family, to be in the woods, to be surrounded by nature and to connect with one another. 

So here’s a painting I made as an affirmation to myself: that it’s okay to pause, to rest, to be. 

Made with my own two hands, watercolours, and through simply trusting the process.

#watercolourart #watercolour #fineart #abstractart #placebasedart
  • end of summer scroll break ⏸️

#ontarionature #outdoors #endofsummer #bythewater #sunset
  • There are few things I love more than art and taking action to create a more sustainable, just future. Put those two things together, and #thisiswhatdreamsaremadeof ✨

#Throwback to last year, when I produced a series of concrete barriers for the Lansdowne cycling track. This trail has been beautifully transformed by so many artists, thanks to @start_streetartoronto @cycletoronto @cityofto Cycling & Pedestrian Projects Unit… Promoting cycling, creativity, and community building in public spaces. 😍 LOVE IT! 💞🌈

Dancing with Joy (2025) is a three-panel artwork that combines stylized seed shapes, symbolizing growth and migration, with dancing figures embodying the joy of community. Created in my signature organic, biomorphic, abstract style.

📸: @symbolikone (second photo) 

#StreetARToronto #PublicArt BikeBarriers
  • Another 📸 from an incredible shoot with @gracegladwellphotography 

It’s the end of June. The end of Q2 + the beginning of summer. Regardless of how you slice it, it’s got me reflecting on how my work has evolved over the last few years. ✨

Stepping into the role of Co-Executive Director of @thestarfishca while continuing to nurture my creative practice has changed how I think about my work. For a while, I thought being an artist, an environmentalist, a facilitator, and a leader were separate parts of my life. Lately, I’ve realized they’re all different expressions of the same mission.

I’m interested in how creativity & community-building can help young people imagine & build more just and sustainable futures. 

+ That’s what I want to explore more here: reflections on nonprofit leadership, social impact, creative practice, community building, and the questions I’m grappling with along the way (+ there are a lot of them 🙃).

I’m on a journey to build a mission-driven life not by choosing between identities, but by integrating them together.

With gratitude & curiosity, 

Sylvie 🌱
  • Can’t believe it’s been two years since visiting Iceland for an environmental arts residency in Blönduós. 🤯 It’s cliché to say, but life moves so fast. This feels like a lifetime ago.

Traveling to a place and experiencing its culture leaves a mark on you. It etches its way into your being. I still think about the vast landscapes, the endless arctic summer light, and the feeling of standing in a place that seemed to stretch on forever.

Feeling grateful for that time of exploration, and for the person I was then: always wanting to be on the land, soaking up the sun, feeling infinite in the expansiveness of a field, standing on a cliffside, watching the sunset.

Wild to think it’s already been two years. 

Photo credits to @gabrielle.lacoste + special thanks to @kathleen.sheila.vaughan for coordinating such an incredible trip as a part of @concordia_arte’s Imagining Iceland Field School. 🙏🏻