Kristine Keating has been a self-taught landscape painter since 1999. Born and raised in Bucks County, she began painting in her early twenties and has developed her own unique style through the years with a focus on light, texture, and shadow.

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This combined with a sepia toned palette, has helped her to create landscapes that reflect her love of the outdoors. Kristine’s art, with its deep texture and earth tones, seems to live and breathe nostalgia while offering solace to even the most casual viewer. Her ‘Shadowlands’ series portrayed the natural world with a deep sense of mystery that evoked a strong sense of feeling and mood. She has shown her landscapes locally in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and across the Delaware river into Hunterdon County, New Jersey.

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After taking a break from painting landscapes, she began working with cold wax medium and then in 2023 began a journey into abstract minimalism after finally taking a few art classes. Her abstract work communicates through a contrast of expressive and controlled lines amongst textured shapes and monochromatic tones. Her 'Fine Lines' and 'Rustica Forma' series involves a unique process of layering ash, cold wax, charcoal and oil paint onto wood panels. Both have the same warm tones as her earlier landscape work. She explores more with color in her two most recent series, 'Intersections' and 'Symbiosis', where she combines the lines and/or textures from previous mentioned series. This time dividing the space into repetitive shapes with either structural, utilitarian sections as seen in Intersections or soft, subtle orbs found in her Symbiosis series.

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The artist paints on a flat surface and almost always in silence. She admits her creative mood arises sporadically, usually when she wants to disengage from the world around her. Painting serves as a meditative process, allowing her to quiet her mind and refocus her energy. Once painting, she finds herself working continuously for many weeks, ending each creative period with many finished pieces, before re-engaging with the world.

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When asked why she enjoys being an artist, Kristine replies, “I’ve always been a bit rebellious, so naturally I was drawn to art because it has no boundaries, there are no restrictions, and anything is possible.”