Artist Statement

Kirsten Todd is a UK-based contemporary artist whose work explores energy, emotion and our deep connection to one another and the natural world. Working across expressive portraiture and abstraction, her paintings reflect inner strength, vulnerability and the unseen forces that shape human experience.

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Her figurative work centres on the Divine Feminine as an expression of intuition, resilience and compassion — qualities that exist within all of us. Through contemporary, expressive portraiture, she moves beyond surface likeness, allowing figures to emerge through intuitive mark-making and colour. Faces often merge with the background, symbolising the symbiotic relationship between the individual and their environment, and our interconnectedness as beings of energy and presence. These works celebrate strength with softness, honouring lived experience, diversity and emotional depth.

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Alongside this, her abstract practice forms the Fragile Earth collection — a body of work rooted in nature and the continual processes of change, decay and regeneration. These abstract paintings explore the planet as a living system shaped by natural forces and time, while also acknowledging its fragility in the face of human impact. Inspired by erosion, weathering and natural renewal, the work reflects resilience within destruction and our shared responsibility as part of the same interconnected ecosystem.

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Across both her figurative and abstract work, Todd’s process is intuitive and responsive. Each painting develops organically through gesture, movement and colour. Whether portrait or abstraction, her work seeks to create a sense of connection — between inner and outer worlds, humanity and nature, and the visible and unseen — inviting the viewer to pause, reflect and recognise their place within a wider whole.