Introduction

Hi, I'm Kiva-Marie. Glad you're here.

An illustration in a sketchy style of a brown garter snake coiled in grass, wild strawberries, and a dandelion. The garter snake has a gold halo around its head.
Garter snake with wild strawberries. Coloured pencil, watercolour, and gouache on toned paper. Kiva-Marie Belt, 2022.
A white person with brownish greyish hair, freckles, and greyish greenish eyes is wearing glasses, a cactus button-up shirt, and overalls, and holding a pencil.

Hi, I'm Kiva-Marie. My pronouns are they/them/theirs and she/her/hers. I prefer if you mix them up a bit.

I'm an agender person living on unceded stolen land in Mi'kma'ki (Nova Scotia). I grow plants and make artwork. I live multi-generationally with my wife and my parents in the farmhouse my great-grandparents once lived in.

I am self-taught, and my artwork is nature-focused, like the rest of my life. I live seasonally, I love a good leaf, mushrooms are beautiful but I don't care for eating them, and I wish people would pay more attention to bugs.

Glad you're here.