How we relate, how we belong, how we make meaning

Daniela Costa is a London-based artist whose evolving practice is shaped by three ways of connecting. She works mainly in acrylic and watercolour, collating layers of painted pieces into compositions that mirror connection itself, layered and dynamic.

Human connection

The intricate chemistry of relationships: how closeness is never simple, how we carry history into every exchange, and how connection can be both a refuge and a disruption.

Connection with nature

Wellbeing as something both offered and tested. Mountains become a symbol of scale, endurance, and awe: the places that steady us, but also unsettle us, where calm and risk, clarity and madness can exist in the same breath. Here, nature is not only comfort; it is perspective, challenge, and transformation.

Abstract connection

Form as a language for the unseen. Lines, shapes, and textures collide, chaos giving birth to structure, and structure breaking apart into something raw. Through acrylic, watercolour, and layered painted pieces, abstraction becomes a way to hold sensation on the surface: intimate, unstable, and open, where connection is not smooth, but powerfully alive.