Three Collections Are Coming Next Year
Save the date — 22nd November 2027 ✨
First Collection: Origins of Skewed Strokes
The Eight Animals offers a rare glimpse into the origins of the Skewed Strokes universe. This collection of eight totem-inspired sketches introduces the symbolic animal guardians that will anchor a forthcoming illustrated book. Created for those who have endured, adapted, and kept moving forward despite feeling unseen, these works celebrate the quiet strength found in surviving life’s crooked paths. This collection is also a tribute to the dear skewed souls I was lucky enough to call my grandparents and great-grandparents.
They loved me simply for being who I was — a skewed soul, just like them. There is something deeply comforting in that connection, however obscured it may sometimes feel.
They remain, for me, a connection to this earth — a reminder of where I come from, and that I belong here, even in the moments when I feel like I don’t.
Second Collection: Wildflowers
A celebration of resilience, beauty, and survival. Like wildflowers growing across the untamed landscape of the safari, these works honor those who thrive despite harsh conditions. Each piece reflects the quiet strength found in adaptation, the courage to bloom where few expect life to flourish, and the enduring beauty of remaining true to one's nature. This collection is dedicated to the overlooked, the underestimated, and the resilient souls who continue to grow through every season.
Wildflowers do not ask permission to bloom. They simply do.
Third Collection: Elly Irma
Published in honor of my great-grandmother, Elly Irma. A collection of charcoal drawings celebrating the human body in its most honest and vulnerable forms. Created as a tribute to the woman who taught me that art is not about perfection, but presence. Elly Irma taught me to trust the movement of my hand, to connect with the body rather than control it, and to embrace mistakes by drawing without an eraser nearby. Charcoal became a lesson in letting go. Every mark remained. Every line told a story. These drawings carry her legacy of freedom, intuition, and acceptance. Sunday pancakes have never been quite the same without you. Yet somehow, you are there in every Sunday that followed.
In every warm memory, every quiet moment, and every piece of art that dares to exist without fear of imperfection.
This gallery is for you. Elly Irma. Forever present in the strokes left behind.
Skewed Strokes is an artistic practice
created by Thea Sneha Borschau Offersen.
The project emerges from experiences of loss, identity, healing, displacement, and human complexity. Through drawing, photography, writing, and printmaking, the studio explores what remains when certainty disappears: memory, texture, connection, and the traces people left.
At its core, Skewed Strokes is an exploration of belonging.
Belonging to the body.
Belonging to the land.
Belonging to memory.
And to those who came before.
Many of the works are shaped by questions of ancestry, inheritance, and the invisible threads connecting generations.
They are created in honour of those whose lives made our own possible, whether their names are remembered or lost to time.
The work seeks to acknowledge that we do not stand alone. We carry stories, histories, wounds, strengths, and fragments of countless lives within us.
Every piece begins with observation.
An animal.
An insect.
A building.
A glance.
A movement.
A feeling.
Observation is both method and philosophy.
The studio works primarily with Staedtler pigment liner pens, charcoal, graphite pencils, and the human hand. The tools themselves are simple and the lines are as imperfect as being human is. The focus lies in attention: looking closely, documenting carefully, and allowing imperfections to remain visible.
The ink drawings are rooted in observational sketching, expressive line work, and field-journal traditions. They often combine anatomy, movement, behaviour, and written notes, reflecting an approach inspired as much by natural history and anthropology as by contemporary drawing practices.The charcoal and graphite works move in a different direction. These figurative studies explore gesture, emotion, tension, vulnerability, and form. Rather than recording a subject precisely, they seek to capture atmosphere, presence, and the emotional weight of a moment.
Across all mediums, the recurring theme is observation.
Not simply seeing.
Understanding.
Skewed Strokes is built around slowness rather than mass production.
I want the work to be made thoughtfully, without producing more than is needed.
As the gallery grows, I’m exploring ways to make the printing, materials, and packaging as considered
and responsible as possible — while keeping the focus where it belongs: on the art.
The studio operates as a digital atelier: an archive of sketches, observations,
photographs, writings, and fragments collected from both nature and human life.
My gallery and art
is not a pursuit of perfection.
It is a pursuit of texture.
Movement.
Memory.
Connection.And all the things that continue to exist, even when life becomes fragmented, uncertain, or skewed.