kristina kivu

Hi, I’m Kristina.

I’m an intuitive artist based in Surrey, UK.

I'm driven by an intense curiosity for both inner and outer worlds. I like to make sense of them through my intuitive paintings, always in search for the essence of things.

Alongside painting, I am also passionate about sharing my process through teaching and mentoring.

I teach painting through exploration, awareness, and mastering the fundamentals before anything else.

For a long time, I thought I wasn’t good at art.

I was told I didn’t have talent, and it shaped how I approached anything creative, careful, hesitant, angry at times.

But I kept coming back to it.

And over time, I realised it wasn’t about talent at all.

It was about staying.

In the messiness of painting and all the emotions that came with it.

In the uncertainty and constant questioning of my life decisions.

In the boredom of doing the same thing over and over again.

And from that, looseness and freedom, and meaning emerged.