She has been widely featured in numerous magazines, art publications, radio and television shows, including International Artist, Fine Art Connoisseur, The Artist’s Magazine, Southwest Art and Bravo!’s Star Portraits. She has been a full-time, professional painter since 2004, exhibiting her work internationally and earning numerous awards including the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (2010, 2013), an Exceptional Merit Award from the Portrait Society of America (2014), and was a finalist for the 2013 Kingston Prize for Canadian portraiture. Her paintings hang in over 500 public and private collections worldwide including the Government of Ontario Art Collection. Kristy Gordon’s work is a frank and intimate reflection of her curiosity about other people, transformations and self-discovery. An abstract beam of light at the left, and a triangle seemingly floating in the center, add to the uncanny nature of this small masterwork. The eeriness of the painting lyes in the dichotomy between the left and right side of the composition. The right third of the painting is 'picture perfect:' a cherry blossom in full bloom and pink hazy landscape in the background. Wolves lope through the composition as birds fly the opposite direction, away from the smoke and flames. A surrealist oil painting by a classically trained painter.
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