The Artist
Scottish Painter · Edinburgh Trained · Exhibiting Internationally
“Born into art. Trained in Edinburgh.
Exhibited in Stockholm.
Now in European homes — personally placed.”
Kirsteen works in mixed media — paint, copper leaf, oil pastel, found materials — creating works that hold light and change with the hour. Each piece begins with observation and ends in transformation.
The work
Kirsteen's paintings are not decorations. They are companions — works that reveal new things as the light in a room shifts, as seasons change, as the viewer changes. Mixed media allows her to build surfaces that breathe: copper leaf beneath layers of paint catches afternoon sun differently than morning grey.
Her subjects are drawn from landscape — coastal grasses, Mediterranean streets, botanical forms — but her interest is in what those landscapes feel like from the inside. Not documentation. Translation.
Each work in this collection is A2 or A3, edges painted, ready to hang. No framing required. No decisions to defer. It arrives, you hang it, and it begins.
The journey
Born into art
Grew up surrounded by creativity. Art was not a choice — it was a first language.
Trained in Edinburgh
Formal training in Scotland's capital — rigorous, traditional foundations that she later broke productively.
Solo exhibition — Galleri Cupido, Stockholm
International debut in Scandinavia. Critical recognition. Works placed in private European collections.
Curated by Maison Cordier across Europe
Five original works available — personally introduced, never sold through galleries or agents.
Every work begins in the world — coastlines, streets, botanical forms. Kirsteen draws from direct experience, not reference images. The feeling of a place, not its record.
Mixed media means building surfaces in layers — copper leaf, paint, oil pastel, texture. Each layer changes what came before. The final work contains every earlier decision.
A work is finished when it becomes its own thing — when it starts telling her something she didn't know she was saying. No two works are alike. No work is ever repeated.
Five works · All available
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