Kristy Severin is a painter and printmaker working closely with native plant species of Virginia to highlight their beauty and importance. She seeks out native flora to photograph and use as inspiration in her work. Kristy uses contour line drawings to depict the plants as well as printing methods to define delicate lines and patterns in the plants’ leaves, stems and flowers. She is heavily influenced by her daily interactions with her children and observations of their simple and creative explorations and reminders to slow down to the gentle currents of life.
Kristy’s work has been shown at Quirk Gallery, Crossroads Art Center, The Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Gallery 5, Cornell University, “Art of Cornell SIPS”, Covenant Woods and several private collectors.
Artist Statement: “My work arrives from my interpretations of nature, life and song as form and in lines through direct observation and creative explorations in my mind. I work with drawing mediums, paint and printing ink on paper, arranging compositions that feel to me, gentle, soft, quiet and child like. I am heavily influenced by my daily interactions with my children and close observation of their simple presence and creative explorations as well as my daily interactions with the natural world around me. I am interested in the tiny miracles of nature that are most noticeable when I move slowly and carefully through the world, paying close attention to the gentle currents of life all around me, above me, and under my feet.”
Artwork for sale through the Visual Arts Center of Richmond.