There’s an ever-increasing number of artists working today who treat the material world not as a resource to be consumed but as something to be listened to. They forage, reclaim, and repurpose. In their hands, discarded wood, recycled paper, vegetable fibers, and foraged pigments are used to create work that is visually arresting and sensitive to our shared environment.

Meet five eco-conscious artists who make sustainability the foundation of their practice. Gabriela Sagarminaga / Sagarminaga Atelier Bilbao, Spain Gabriela Sagarminaga founded her Basque Country atelier in 2017 to revive the ancestral craft of working with vegetable fibers and bring it into contemporary space-making. The tactile, sculptural pieces she creates carry a sense of cultural continuity and material honesty.

And choosing plant-based, natural materials over synthetic alternatives, her practice is rooted in sustainability as much as tradition. Discover Gabriela’s work on Saatchi Art Ana Montoya Marseille, France Ana Montoya’s path to sustainable art ran through the Amazon, where she spent years working alongside indigenous artisan communities. Inspired by their textile traditions, she works almost exclusively with collected organic materials such as acorns and leaves—a choice that connects her practice to the land and to the communities that taught her.

Minimalist and beautifully framed, they have a dignity that comes directly from the materials and the hands that shaped them. Discover Ana’s work on Saatchi Art Paola Bazz Padova, Italy Paola Bazz trained as an architect before turning to art, and that sensibility for structure runs through everything she makes. Rather than working with new materials, she upcycles printed matter— magazines, catalogs, and books destined for the bin—and folds, cuts, and layers them into compositions of remarkable intricacy.

What reads as a face or flower from across the room reveals itself, up close, as a dense architecture of interwoven paper. Discover Paola’s work on Saatchi Art Fabia Escobar São Paulo, Brazil For Fabia Escobar, a discarded object is a witness. Since 2014, the São Paulo–based artist has been working with fragments of discarded wood and everyday objects.

Fabia is drawn to the scars, textures, and histories embedded in what gets thrown away. Her background in industrial and graphic design gives her an acute sense of composition as she explores impermanence and transformation. Discover Fabia’s work on Saatchi Art Lisa-Marie Price Hertfordshire, United Kingdom Lisa-Marie Price makes her own paint.

That alone puts her in rare company. Crafted from foraged earth minerals, her handmade watercolors eliminate the synthetic pigments and plastic-heavy packaging. She works on offcut linen—material that would otherwise go to waste—and her resulting abstracts carry that intentionality in every mark. Discover Lisa-Marie Price on Saatchi Art