Nature has given us the best tools to create a brighter tomorrow, but most people have lost this knowledge. Sometimes the most simple can be extremely complex! Judith Braun is not a designer or muralist, she is an great artist who uses charcoal and with the fingers she paint idyllic landscapes and lively, abstract patterns directly onto walls.

Braun says. “In all my other work too, I choose parameters within which to experiment, notice sameness and difference, and manifest surprises,” she says. “This is a philosophical, psychological, and even scientific approach I prefer, so that my drawings are the result of a process and practice that I initiate, rather than just being a contrived design that I execute.”

Each painting takes just two to five days to execute–she’s a fast fingerer–but requires many months of advance planning. “I consider my studio practice time a bit like musicians or dancers, who build up a physical memory,” she says. “Then, when I arrive at an actual gallery wall, I can let myself go with certain confident, though not precise, gestures.” Read more about her work here.