I’m Ingrid Koivukangas, an award-winning environmental artist, writer, and photographer based on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia.

For more than three decades, my work has grown from direct encounters with place. I walk, listen, observe, research, and pay attention to what a site carries — its ecology, natural and cultural history, memory, materials, and the less tangible things that can only be approached through intuition.

My practice moves between science and spirituality, the visible and the unseen. It has taken the form of long-term ecological works, site-specific installations, public art, photography, mixed media, writing, sound, and participatory works created across Canada and internationally.

Here, I write the stories behind that work — the places I’ve worked, the projects that unfolded there, what I discovered, what I sensed, what I couldn’t always explain, and how those experiences eventually became art.

Some of these stories reach back into my archive. Others begin with something happening now that brings an earlier place or project back to mind.

From 2015–2025, Alchemy Farm became a decade-long ecological art project on Salt Spring Island, integrating pollinator habitat, ecological restoration, botanical diversity, observation, photography, writing, and contemplative practice. It is an important part of my story — but only one of many places that have shaped the work.

I’m also the creator of the Alchemy Flower Oracle and Eco Heart Oracle, both of which grew from the same practice of listening deeply to the living world through my direct work with sites and the site-specific works that emerged from them.

Alchemy in Nature is where I share the stories, questions, memories, and intuitive processes that live behind the finished work.

Welcome.