My practice begins with colour as both material and language. Through printmaking, painting, and collage, I explore the relationship between emotion, perception, and visual experience, with joy as a central and intentional presence within the work.

Working intuitively, I develop layered abstract compositions through processes of accumulation, fragmentation, and translation. Printmaking plays a vital role in this approach, offering opportunities for experimentation, repetition, and material discovery. I work across monoprint, collagraph, and relief, combining hand-painted elements with analogue and digital processes to create richly textured surfaces and dynamic colour relationships.

My 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.

I am particularly interested in the tactile and transformative qualities of printmaking and in how colour can shape our sensory and emotional response to a work. Through my practice, I seek to create prints that inhabit space with energy, sensitivity, and a sense of joy, inviting moments of connection and reflection.

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.

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.