Kirsten is a fine-artist who works across a wide range of mediums. Her work often focuses on the body in soft chalk pastels. Often cropping and focusing on smaller areas, enlarged to create opposing sensations of closeness vs isolation.

She also enjoys concept photography and unique fashion, and sells art and handmade items alongside adult tutoring.

She has a passion for the macabre and the uncanny, and making work that leaves an impression on the viewer.

She has a unique way of creating skintone using a rainbow of undertones developed into a signature recognisable style.

She teaches group and private classes throughout Bedfordshire and is available for commissions of pet & people portraits.

Featured on this site are examples of commissioned art and also her own personal work created using two complementary topics delving into hidden aspects of our bodies:

Carnival & The Grotesque 

Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin dual-sided theory of The Carnival & the Grotesque Body questions our notions of utopia and dystopia. It focuses on primal human desires, excess, gluttony and lust but doesn’t shy from the other end of the spectrum: death and disease. We as a society find lots of things about our bodies ‘gross’ or ‘unpleasant’ and therefore keep a whole area of ourselves hidden away.

Perfection                                                                                                                       

We are a world obsessed with appearances. This body of work was created after researching Victorian Freak Shows. Even though in modern-day society we no longer objectify unusual bodies for entertainment, we are still constantly faced with an unachievable standard of beauty that leaves little room for bodies that don't fit this ideal.