Kristin Swenson-Lin

Kristin Swenson-Lintault is a multi-media artist and encaustic instructor at KSL Studio in Seattle, WA.  She earned her MFA in Fiber/Textiles in 1996 and her BA in Fine Art-Drawing in 1994 at Southern Illinois University. She studied painting at Hospitalfield House, a 13C. Studio Arts Centre in Arbroath, Scotland, and studied traditional natural dye and indigo textile dyeing, washi papermaking and wood-fired ceramics in Japan and S. Korea.   She has traveled to France, Netherlands, Germany, Mexico and Belize to research art history and architecture. She has exhibited her work nationally and in Nakajo, Japan.  Her KSL STUDIO blog is her art studio journal of recent work, sketchbook drawings, travel photos, and art happenings that together explore her creative process. She teaches encaustic painting workshops with a fiber/textile emphasis called THE HEATED PALETTE at her KSL studio in Seattle. http://www.ksl-studio.blogspot.com Workshops at KSL STUDIO http://www.theheatedpalette.blogspot.com If you would like to contact her about workshops or be added to her mailing list to receive announcements please email kslstudio@kristinswensonlintault.com.  "My process has been varied but I have always been inspired to create work that deals with extracting the essence of some aspect of nature.  My current body of work titled INSIDE OUT is part of an ongoing series examining origins, connections and lifelines. I use my interest and research in fiber/textile history, Japanese aesthetic, and natural forms to build imagery derived from trees, bonsai, roots, labyrinths, veins, umbilical cords, plant cells, knots, skeins, Japanese Shimenawa sacred ropes and Incan khipu to suggest strength, vitality, continuum, nourishment and ancestral links.  My process of incorporating rope, thread, string, fabric, ink and graphite with encaustic paint combines my drawing sensibilities with visual depth utilizing the inherent sculptural qualities of wax."  NEWS Two of her paintings using encaustic, mixed media on panel will be featured on the covers of a new textbook titled "Translational Perspectives in Auditory Neuroscience" written by Kelly Tremblay and Robert Burkard coming out in 2011.