A woman with black wavy hair smiling, against a vibrant background of colorful botanical illustrations featuring flowers, leaves, crescents, and star-shaped elements.

Laini Eckardt

is a multidisciplinary artist based in Sydney, Australia. Her work explores the beauty, strength, and spirituality of the natural world through a wide range of mediums—chalk pastels, oil and acrylic painting, photography, digital collage, and animation. Drawing inspiration from mythology, sacred feminine archetypes, and her connection to landscapes like the Daintree Rainforest, Laini blends hand-drawn figures with vintage botanical and celestial imagery to create dreamlike portraits of divine femininity.

At the heart of her practice is a deep curiosity and love of experimentation. Rather than confining her creativity to one style or material, Laini lets each concept guide the form it takes. This approach allows her to weave together traditional and digital techniques, creating artwork that feels timeless, spiritual, and emotionally resonant.

Her works have been exhibited across New South Wales and Far North Queensland, and she is a founding member of the “Art in Transit” artist collective. Most recently, Laini has extended her practice into animation, breathing new life into her drawings through movement and sound.

2020       Associate Degree in Information Studies, Charles Sturt University

2018 Diploma of Photography and Photo Imaging, Wollongong TAFE NSW 

1998               Diploma Fine Arts, Seaforth TAFE NSW

 

1992               Ceramics Studio Certificate, Randwick TAFE NSW

 

1988-1989     Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts)

                        Ceramics Department, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney University 

“There is such grace and beauty in Laini's work, with the serene figures, their bodies communing with elements of nature. The viewer is transported into a sacred place where the artist seems to caress the boundaries between femininity and divinity. She captures something mystical with her chalk sketches, and cocoons the female body in vine, tendril and leaf.  This seems to be a conversation of essence, the oneness of creation depicted in both human and plant form. Blossoms and soft thighs, hair and stars, flesh and fern frond seem to kiss one another in a gentle and spiritual way. Laini's art is both a lesson in the artists skill, and a conversation with the viewer, that is both captivating and metaphysical. The animated aspect of these pieces add another, beautiful, facet to the artworks, and it is in this way that digital art can offer something new and exciting to the traditional art world.”  Jasmine la Fleur - NFT Weekly