Rhovanthel is an art project by Isobel Hamilton.

Isobel has been working as an artist in Nova Scotia since 2018, although creating art for her goes back much further than that. She is a fine artist, and sells her work at galleries in Canada and online to collectors in North America and Europe.

She is a traditional painter, a realist working in acrylics and oils.

Isobel first started in the nft space in 2021, selling digital 1/1s of her physical paintings on Solana. Later in 2022 she branched out into photography with her collection “Scottish Gothic”, and experimented with abstract with “When My Mind Wanders”.

With the bear of 2023 Isobel stepped back from nfts to refocus on her physical paintings, continuing to sell her work and expanding into oil painted portraits. 2023 was also a difficult year financially, and personally, as her mother, also an artist, passed away unexpectedly.

Coming back to Solana in 2024 she has a new sense of purpose, and also a new understanding of how she wants to grow in the nft space. While the traditional fine art world is quite rigid, and doesn’t like surprises, the art community on Solana offers the opportunity to really dig in, explore, and experiment.

Isobel has always loved the wild. She played outside all the time growing up in Scotland, and spent many family holidays in the countryside of the UK and France. She now lives in the wilds of Nova Scotia, in a small house in the woods. Rhovanthel is about using art to connect to nature and the wilderness. It will explore different artistic avenues to do this, as Isobel allows herself to follow wherever her creativity wants to go. In some considerable part this is therapy; taking time to think about and connect with wilderness. Creating this body of work is giving herself permission to give time to this ‘therapy’, rather than brush it off.

The project will be divided into collections, each with focusing on a particular theme or art method. The main areas she will be exploring are: semi-abstract photography, expressionist digital art, AI, and physical abstract painting.