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Kristen Dunkelberger

Kristen Dunkelberger (b. 1968) is an American watercolor artist living in France. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art in Painting and Drawing, Watercolor emphasis, from College of Art & Design, University of North Texas, in Denton, Texas. Dunkelberger has been included in various online spaces and exhibitions, including 5th Annual Women Artists Exhibition, and 8th Annual Landscapes Exhibition, both with Fusion Arts Palm Springs, Palm Springs, California. Recent exhibitions include the Small Works National Juried Exhibition, The Rice Gallery, Overland Park, Kansas and the 46th International Watermedia Exhibition, Watercolor Society - Houston, Houston, Texas. Publications include Art Seen Magazine and New Visionary Magazine.

My work as a watercolor landscape painter examines my relationship to the natural world and the introspection this relationship encourages. I seek meaning and peace in the sublime beauty of our environment as it evolves through climate change.My interest in watercolor technique and landscape began with a semester abroad at university, studying the effects of latitude and altitude on light in Europe. Based on the work and tireless travels of JMW Turner, it inspired my own modern nomadism. Traveling in a self propelled style to experience the landscape in an immersive way and choosing locations to explore as my interests dictate suits my enquiring spirit. An interest in poetry, specifically haiku, influences the liberal editing of reality into painting. As Japanese haiku master Matsuo Bashō used poetry to trace his many long journeys on foot, I’m inspired to use watercolor for my journeys.Watercolor's fluidity, translucence and temporal qualities communicate the light that denotes the essence of a specific place, time of day and season. Using heavy paper, torn to size – not cut – emphasizes the objectness and structure in each piece. Color records the emotional experience of observation. In using a reductive visual language, with realistic and abstract elements, my work is both fact and fiction. Incorporating simple shapes of a landscape – at times separated, then together – conveys movement and a disjointed sense of time. I use negative space throughout to form suggestive line work, and provide space for contemplation, recording my experience of the natural world during my lifetime.

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