Kirsten Nash artist statement:
“As soon as I start feeling boxed in, I start looking for a way out…every canvas, each piece of music I write or perform represents a puzzle in need of solving.” Born in San Francisco, raised on Vancouver Island before making her home in Vancouver, Canada, Kirsten Nash loves puzzles. A lifetime recording and touring musician/composer, she has always created art of one kind or another. Self taught as an artist, Kirsten has explored sculpture, oil and acrylic painting on her path to visual expression. “My work definitely comes from an organic place; if I can’t feel it, you won’t feel it. For me, that’s what art is all about!”
Kirsten Nash-Bio
Kirsten Nash has often been called a “Renaissance Woman”. This Canadian multi-instrumentalist and vocalist has played saxophone and sung with touring acts such as Long John Baldry, Alfie Zappacosta, as well as playing in countless bands, jamming with performers such as Stephen Stills, Boz Scaggs, Jeff Healey and Tom Jones over the years in Vancouver. She was a member of the iconic West Coast favourites, the R&B Allstars for over 25 years.
As a composer Kirsten has written two rock operas; “Alice in Modernland”, which was work-shopped off –Broadway by Maxwell Productions and had it’s world premier at “Sledgehammer Theatre” in San Diego, then “the Bird and the Waterfall”, which was work-shopped and filmed in West Vancouver at the Kay Meek theatre.
Kirsten’s first CD was the critically acclaimed “Bridging the Gap”, released in 1994. Upon returning to live performance and the studio after a hiatus to raise her children, Kirsten recorded her second CD, “The View From Here”, released in 2012, followed in 2014 by an EP called “Salvador Dolly” has recently released her new CD, “A Feather and a Scale”.
Throughout the span of her colourful musical career Kirsten has always created visual art; from ceramic sculptures to oil and acrylic paintings, she has explored her own soul as well as that of the world around her, often embracing her love of music and nature as subjects. Kirsten and her paintings were recently featured in the Spring 2016 edition of “Arabella”, the premier Canadian Art, Architecture and Design magazine, (http://www.arabelladesign.com/current_issue.htm) “International Contemporary Artists, Volume XI”, (http://www.incoartists.com/Vol-XI/index.html) and has had featured articles in Vancouver magazines Fresh and Home. Kirsten participated in both the 2015 and 2016 Art!Vancouver and is very much looking forward to her experience in Art Monaco 2016!
