Kristin Voss

Painting was my first love

It’s how I’m wired. I’ve always seen colors and shapes and composition, no matter what is in my view. I have an innate and compulsive desire to create. Art is my outlet to work through, express, and ultimately understand my emotions and feelings that I experience everyday of my life. It’s like being able to create my own lens to see the world through.

Once I start, I can’t stop

Painting is the strongest pleasure known to me. It’s the rapture I get when I’m working on a piece and I begin to discover what belongs where, what colors to incorporate, where to add texture and am beginning to create an image where I understand and orchestrate how all of those parts are going to come together. The process is soul-filling. I can never seem to calm the urge to draw or paint. It’s a never-ending cycle of pondering, planning, starting, creating, completing, and starting something anew. The ideas never stop.

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls” – Pablo Picasso

There are SO MANY beautiful things in the world. There’s also a lot of not so beautiful things. I try to find the uniqueness, color, humor, honesty, grace, humanity and life in all of them. Art can change you and make you se...

BA in Studio Art and Art History from The University of Maryland