Kirsten is a self-taught artist creating in photography, painting and mixed media. Inspired by the unruly mysteries of Nature, her explorations are linked by the search for "the soul of a space, the space of a soul." A lifelong career training horses, their humans, and tending to the land taught her observation, appreciation of essence, communication and stewardship. These both inform and are often central subjects of her art. Kirsten lives and works in wild, wonderful West Virginia, where she begins by losing herself in a place, a creature, a possibility, asking and answering artistic, technical and creative questions in the moment. Her artistic gaze always returns and finds respite in the familiar and ethereal grace of the equines and ecosystems around her.
