Kristen Drozdowski’s painting practice includes collaboration with natural materials such as earth pigments and plant dyes, non-toxic binders and raw surfaces. Using paints they create mindfully and patiently from these materials, their whole practice from start to finish is a meditation on deep relationship, observing as subtle experiences such as fleeting emotions and memories are brought into into physical form. Sometimes, non-verbal communication is the strongest form of channeling. Kristen considers their art not abstract, but representational. A peaceful visual language of simple shapes and colors is expressed in each one of Kristen’s paintings, emerging through spontaneity, trust, and intuition. Their process is most influenced by spiritual connections between earth, water, light, body, and mind.

About this collection:
Exploring natural texture, intuition, abandon, subtle repetition, and trust.
For this series I worked on creating new grounds from various clays and rock and even crushed eggshells. I learned that you can form a ground from many different materials. I learned the same thing about a shape.
You might see a shape and think “that’s a nice visual decoration” as if the shape is the object. But I must insist, each shape feels to me as intimate as it feels when you discover an emotion so deep down and so preliminary to speech that you feel too vulnerable or incapable to express it in words. The shape is an imprint of an object that is more subtle than the shape. The shape isn’t the true form, it’s only evidence of the attempt to express it.