Artists Bio:
Award winning Lancashire based intuitive artist, Kirsten Todd, paints expressive, energetic and expressionist portraits, and abstracts. Painting since a child, and after gaining her degree in graphic design, she has had a career in the design industry for 30 years, whilst continuing to paint. For the last 7 years she has concentrated on painting professionally. Painting intuitively, Kirsten finds creating her pieces a working meditation, becoming in flow, in tune with the piece, Her spiritual side having a great influence on her work. Working mainly in acrylics, her portraits celebrate strong women, female empowerment, cultural diversity: giving women a voice. Expressing the divine feminine and the divine human form to show, inner strength, human resilience, their inner power and realisation of the true power that we humans have within us, our emotion, energy, our connection with each other and all that exists.
Her abstracts highlight the forces of nature, the natural elements of this plane of existence and our intrinsic connection to nature and this living breating entity in which we reside symbiotically. Her artwork highlights the fact that everything is energy, has a vibration and frequency and is connected to everything that exists creating an intertwined cause and effect, (quantum entanglement). Everything therefore has a consciousness and our plane of existence is a conscious living entity.
Kirsten’s recent achievements include; WINNER of the British Art Prize Edding Acrylic Award 2022, Finalist in the Society of Women Artists Open Exhibition 2023, Winner in the Galeria Moderna London Invitational Art Contest 2023 at Castle Fine Art, Mayfair, WINNER Old Lock up Gallery Open 2024, WINNER and People’s Choice Award Haworth Art Gallery Open 2024, and obtaining a Certificate of Artistic Merit from Luxembourg Art Prize and the Pinacotheque Museum for 2023, 2022 and 2021 consecutively. Kirsten has shown her work in exhibitions in the Mall Galleries, Gallery@oxo, Castle Fine Art, London, around the UK and internationally, with solo shows in the UK.
In addition to being the winner of The British Art Prize Acrylic Award she has also gained several emerging artist awards, has featured in art books, features in The Huts Magazine, World Wide Art Magazine, The Circle Quarterly Art Review Magazine, Women United Art Magazine, ArtistCloseup, Living North, Arts 2 Hearts 101 Artists: Portraits Edition, and Artists and Illustrators Magazine. Kirsten’s work is collected nationally and internationally.
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