Kristin’s is an emerging painter with a background of graphic design and marketing as well as a college education in fine art. Many years of design, branding and communications for retail, health care, and business-to-business clients, has helped to form the ideals of her current painting.

The messages are simple and singular: a moment, a memory, a look, a subject. She is fascinated with the way light plays on and around forms. She works in a contemporary realistic style, with hints of impressionism, using either oil or acrylic. Her plein air paintings, worked with a conservation of brushstrokes, are painted on location, and her larger studio paintings are created in her studio in St. Augustine.
In addition to plein air and studio work, Kristin is also an award winning portrait painter.

Kristin has studied painting with notable contemporary masters, including graphic designer Milton Glaser, and painters including David Leffel, Clayton Beck, III, Ron Monsma, Romel de la Torre, Leonard Wren, Richard Weaver and Sydney McKenna.

While painting is her passion, Kristin still consults in graphic design and marketing. She is an avid traveler, photographer, sailor, and active member of the Chicago Yacht Club Race Committee, where she is a timer/radio operator for major races, including the longest freshwater sailing race in the world, The Race to Mackinac.

Galleries:
Courtyard Art Gallery, St Augustine, FL
24 Cathedral Place, St. Augustine, FL
Worley Favor Gallery, St. Augustine, FL
Corse Gallery and Atelier, Jacksonvile, FL
Shows and Awards:
2009
Plein Air Exhibit, St. Augustine Art Assoc.
2010
First Place, Spring Member Show, St. Augustine Art Assoc.?
Honorable Mention, and winner of cover art design for Destination Flagler Beach at the F.B. Paint Out, GOLA Gallery
Honorable Mention, Views of St. Augustine, St. Augustine Art Assoc.
Second Place, Honors Show, St Augustine Art Assoc.
Nature and Wildlife Juried Show, St. Augustine Art Assoc.
Honorable Mention, Fall Member Show, St Augustine Art Assoc.
S.O.S. (Save Our Shores) Exhibition to benefit the Gulf Oil Spill Victims, at the Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago IL
Featured Artist, October, 2010, April, 2011 Courtyard Art Gallery, St. Augustine, FL
2011
First Place, Portrait and Figure Show, St. Augustine Art Assoc
Two paintings accepted into the US Coast Guard Art Collection for 2011, to be unveiled in July, 2011 at the Salmagundi Club in NYC
Second Place, Judith Ryan Williams Nature and Wildlife Show, St. Augustine Art Assoc. $1,000 prize
Public/Corporate Collections:
Memorial Hospital and Health System, South Bend, Indiana
NTE Energy, St. Augustine, FL
United States Coast Guard 2011 National Collection
Organizations:
Oil Painters of America
Artist Member, Palette and Chisel, Chicago
Plein Air Artists of St Augustine
Ponte Vedra Cultural Arts Center
The Society for Arts in Health Care
St. Augustine Art Association
Southeast Women Painters
US Coast Guard Artist
Los Angeles Society of Illustrators Air Force Artist