ARTS & RECREATION
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ingly intrigued by the way a personality can be expressed “in a glance or the by the cocking of an eye.”
Kristyn’s vision is backed up with an impressive talent. It is expressed in media including oils, acrylics, pastels, and encaustic (molten wax mixed with oil pigment) and also in a range of formats from landscapes to portraits to abstracts. She is bold with her colour choices. Some of her pieces are “erratic,” she notes, “and some are more peaceful.”
A “feeling” is often the starting point for a piece. “Then,” she says, “I step back and listen—to me creating is a form of visual listening and I have produced some intriguing results this way.”
Kristyn did her first portrait in public school, using the grid-method technique. Soon after, she received a caricature of herself and thought “this is cool”—from that point on she became increas-
The scope of her talent helps Kristyn in teaching her many students, including the children who take art from her during the summer in Bayfield. She readily sees where budding artists are “coming from” and can coach them in their creative expression. She takes a great measure of joy in encouraging others to discover, as she has, that “art can be liberating.”
You can see Kristyn’s art from May to October at KryArt Studio & Gallery, 4-9 Main Street in Bayfield, at the West Elgin Community Health Centre in West Lorne, at her spring show in West Lorne and at www.kryartstudio.ca. She can also be reached at 519.525.2515 or kryartstudio@gmail.com.