Wild Geese

Christina Huynh is an illustrator and muralist based in Western Sydney, Australia that paints under the name STYNA. Her art practice involves creating murals, illustrations and picture books from differing mediums of watercolour, ink and pen to acrylic and aerosol.

With an enthusiasm for goldfish and all things fragile in our natural world, Christina creates stories in her work that express her everyday thoughts, experiences and memory. She finds inspiration in storytelling, human emotion, wayfaring and the heritage of people and place.

STYNA painted "Wild Geese" on a rooftop wall at Kootenay Lake Hospital that faces the hospital's palliative care ward for Nelson International Mural Festival in 2022. The piece is inspired by the Mary Oliver poem "Wild Geese" and contains the line:
"Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things."