ARTIST STATEMENT
Hi! Thanks for visiting. I started painting as a way to communicate my love of color. Each of us is drawn to a color or palette that we find energizing, soothing, or even disruptive. We are drawn to places or items with these colors - rooms, fabrics, or nature, for instance. I love capturing these color combinations and putting them on canvas. Color has power, and our connection with it can bring inexplicable joy.
I paint primarily in acrylic on canvas and often use non-traditional colors and heavy patterns to communicate. My subject matter is based in the organic but often has an industrial structure, which results in bold and unique pieces. Layers of color and texture work in paintings, just as they do in your favorite music or your favorite food.
My work is in private and corporate collections in Oregon, Texas, Kansas, Colorado, and Tennessee. I’ve shown and sold at several national shows, juried shows, and multiple galleries.
CONTACT
kristindenver01@gmail.com
@kristin_denver_
615-572-9257
BIO
Kristin is a mixed media artist who was raised in Kansas, where she earned an English Education degree at Kansas State University and a masters in Counseling at Wichita State University. She enjoyed careers as a teacher and counselor before becoming an HR manager for a Fortune 200 company. While her first formal art class was a design course in college, she’s studied under several outstanding teachers, including Susan Gurskin, Marian Lefeld, and Emily LaCour. Kristin often takes pictures to capture ideas and shapes that will inspire future work. She has been lucky enough to fill a travelers log with pictures of architecture, nature, textiles, and local culture, which have in turn given new shape to color, pattern and texture on canvas. Kristin has also lived in Tennessee and Arizona, and now lives and paints in Texas, where good blues and salsa are everywhere.