Kristen Peyton
Kristen Peyton is a painter, printmaker, and draftswoman working from observation and invention. She earned a Master of Fine Art in Painting from the University of New Hampshire in 2017 and a Bachelor of Arts from the College of William and Mary in 2012. Kristen is a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and a resident of Richmond, Virginia. She is the Director and Curator of the Flippo Gallery at Randolph-Macon College as well as an instructor of drawing at Randolph-Macon and the College of William and Mary.
Peyton’s work is a gesture of hospitality— an invitation to marvel at the mystery and beauty of commonplace moments encountered in everyday life. She welcomes her viewers into the profound presence of a chosen moment by offering through her work the gift of “eternal timefullness.” Art is a gift Peyton offers in faith to others— an attentive lens she gives to her viewer of captured light, time, and space. Her work is an invitation to the viewer to pause, to enter fully the created space of her paintings, stay awhile, and experience the visual abundance of our world.
Yellow Mountain, 2019, Oil on Canvas mounted to board, 12x12.75”
Apricots, 2019, Oil on Canvas mounted to board, 13x12.25”
Swimming Pool Mountain, 2019, Canvas Mounted to Board, 24.5"x20"
Olive Tree, 2019, Oil on Canvas Mounted to Board, 12.75"x12.25”
Localita, 2019, Oil on Canvas Mounted to Board, 5.5"x8.25"
Montacuto West, 2019, Oil on Canvas Mounted to Board, 25.5”x20.5”
House after Snow, 2016, Oil on Stretched Canvas, 16”x20”
“With each piece, I hope to invite my viewer to pause, enter the created space of my works, stay a while, and experience something of the visual abundance of our world.”
— Kristen Peyton