Kirsten Basram Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom
Kirsten is an abstract landscape artist working mainly in oils. She is based in her childhood home of Cornwall and her work investigates the spiritual and emotional response to landscape and memory. She exhibits regularly, both solo shows and group exhibitions and works from her garden studio near Redruth.
I make luminous, multi-layered paintings evoking my experience of the Cornish landscape and weather and my own inner emotional and spiritual landscapes. I imagine them acting as portals or abstract icons for the viewer, taking them to a spiritual place of rest. I want my paintings to exist as objects of beauty and intrigue with their multi-layered surfaces full of depth, texture, intriguing marks and rich colour. Landscape as a physical and spiritual reality is the thread that runs through my work and whilst some of my work is more abstract, I return to landscape as it is important to me to communicate the fragility and value of this earth and in particular, Cornwall. I hope my art enables you to enter in to these “thin places” where heaven and earth meet, and you lose yourself in the layers of colour and subtle texture.
Artwork
Walk Slowly, Oil on cradled wood panel, 2025, £650
Past the Edge of the World, Oil on cradled wood panel, 2024, £850
Falling, Oil on cradled wood panel, 2025, £650
The Healing Place, Oil on linen, 2024, £1,100
Projects and exhibitions
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The Soul of the Land26/06/2025 — 03/07/2025 A solo exhibition of paintings and a workshop at this new gallery space in Redruth Cornwall. I exhibited older and new paintings and ran a free workshop "Contemplative Abstract Art using Coloured Pencils" |
89 Redruth, Redruth | Details |
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Form Falmouth Art Festival20/09/2024 — 22/09/2024 This was the second year I have been selected for this new but already popular art fair, which draws in over 2,000 visitors over the weekend. |
The Princess Pavilion, Falmouth | Details |