Having a love of art since a small child, Kirsten gained a BA in graphic Design and has had a career in the design industry as a graphic designer for the past 30 years, all the while keeping up with her love of painting and her painting practice. Deciding to concentrate fully on her art, Kirsten has been painting professionally since 2016.
Award winning Lancashire based intuitive artist, Kirsten Todd, paints expressive, intuitive and energetic expressionist portraits and abstracts.
Kirsten Todd is a UK-based contemporary artist known for her expressive portraits and abstracts exploring energy, emotion, and the rise of the Divine Feminine. Working primarily in acrylics, she creates intuitively—channelling colour, movement and energetic resonance into each piece. Her work reveals the balance between strength and vulnerability, reflecting the human spirit in its rawest, most authentic form.
Kirsten’s portraits celebrate feminine power, cultural diversity, and the universal connection that exists between all living things. Through instinctive mark-making and layered colour, her figures emerge from their surroundings as if rising out of energy itself, symbolising intuition, resilience, healing and transformation.
Her work has received significant recognition, including Winner of the British Art Prize Edding Acrylic Award (2022), Winner of the Galeria Moderna London Invitational, Castle Gallery, Mayfair 2023, Finalist in the Society of Women Artists Exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London 2023, and Certificates of Artistic Merit from the Luxembourg Art Prize and Pinacothèque Museum (2021, 2022, 2023, 2025).
She has exhibited across the UK and internationally, with solo shows and features in publications including The Huts Magazine, Circle Quarterly Art Review, Worldwide Art Magazine, Living North, Artists & Illustrators Magazine, Goddess Arts Magazine, and 101 Portrait Artists edition.
Her paintings are held in private collections nationally and internationally. Kirsten is also a member of the Visual Artists Association.
Her artistic process is deeply intuitive. As a channelled, energy-led practice, Kirsten enters a flow state where the work becomes a form of meditation—open, receptive, and connected. Each painting carries the emotional and energetic imprint of this process, allowing viewers to feel the frequency behind the artwork as much as they see it. Themes of connection, healing, feminine ascension and inner strength run throughout her work.
Kirsten strives to create art that not only speaks visually but resonates energetically—art that empowers, comforts, awakens, and reflects the shared human experience.
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My portraits
"THE DIVINE FEMININE"
We all have masculine and feminine energy within us and for the last few thousand years it has been out of balance with the masculine energy, having a much stronger influence and in control of the way we feel and think. This imablance has caused the patriarchal society we live in, fuelling aggresssion, war, anger, greed, materialism, over consumption, selfishness and dominance over women. Now there is a rise of the divine feminine energy streaming into the planet and within us seeking to rebalance our bodies, our inner world and by extension our outer world and planet. This feminine energy brings compassion, strength within, heightened intuition, truth, wisdom and spirituality.
My portraits highlight the rise of the Feminine energy in this time of great change as we, our planet and our universe are on our journey of ascension to a new, higher vibration aiming to bring balance to our inner world and thus by extension our outer world and the planet. I feel I need to get this message out to as many people as possible in my own unique way. My paintings celebrate strong women, showing within them inner strength of a warrioress - not harsh or cruel but strength with compassion and humility, seeing within the vulnerability and pain of a hard life lived and hardships endured and concquered. They highlight the struggle of women to be accepted as equals, giving women a much needed voice, seeing beauty within all of us and every living thing and celebrating cultural diversity.
If we listen to our intuition and our inner guides, we can tap into unlimited strength, compassion, wisdom and guidance. We can shine our light and show the world our true essense and true powerful nature, empowering ourselves and the world
around us.
My abstracts
"FRAGILE EARTH"
My abstracts highlight our fragile planet and the natural process of decay and change that occur over time by the forces of nature. They also highlight what can be the destructive force of nature and the state of our planet at the moment due to pollution.
No matter what we do Nature and the laws of nature will always prevail and find a way to repair, recover, adapt and thrive. For example shipwrecks creating the perfect haven and habitat for fish and new coral reefs to form, and plant life finding its way into derelict buildings, slowly taking over and taking back its rightful place.
The natural world has always been one of the most celebrated settings onto which many artists project their beliefs, feelings, and ideas. Art can renew our connection with nature, and can address environmental issues and topics about conservation, sustainability, preservation, biodiversity, and threatened habitats.