Niki Keenan is a painter and sculptor who translates the emotion of the forest in visual language. Her practice explores the intelligence of nature through interconnected cycles of growth, decay, and renewal. Working with paint, wood, gauze, clay, jute, and wire, she creates sculptural paintings that function as windows into imagined landscapes. Keenan blurs the boundaries between painting and sculpture to create immersive environments that feel both dreamlike and deeply rooted in lived experience. Her current body of work, Pocket Forest, draws inspiration from this term, which is the ecological practice of rewilding in urban environments. Her version of Pocket Forests are sculptural poetic markers of fleeting moments in a forest, at once eerie and edged with danger, yet soft and luminous, always beckoning.