Kirsten lives at the edge of the mountains outside of Bozeman with her husband Patrick and their four girls: Sawyer, Quinn, Reese and Tatumn. Their menagerie also includes two dogs named Toad and Mable, a cat named Gustave Mouse Mahler (or Gus), five frogs and some fish. When she’s not painting, welding whimsical metal sculptures, she can be found taking care of her busy family or playing tennis.
When creating her art, Kirsten prefers to use materials that already exist for a previous purpose. She thinks less about what it was used for or made for, and more as a form or shape to help build the new thing she is making. She enjoys using things that would otherwise become garbage. Kirsten collects art of all kinds. She loves supporting artists and gains inspiration and insight about life from creative works. For more information about Kirsten and her work,
visit her website.
