Kristin Swenson-Lintault is a multi-media artist living in the Pacific Northwest. She earned her MFA in Fiber/Textiles in 1996 and her BA in Fine Art-Drawing in 1993 at Southern Illinois University. She also studied painting at Hospitalfield House, a 13th C. Studio Arts Centre in Scotland, and studied traditional textile dyeing, washi hand papermaking and wood-fired ceramics in Japan and South Korea. She has worked in a range of media, including drawing, painting, textile dyeing and printing using natural plant dyes, paper pulp painting, ceramics and photography, and in 2001 began combining aspects of all into encaustic painting. She has exhibited her work locally, nationally and in Nakajo, Japan. She currently is exhibiting work at the 2009 International Encaustic Conference at the Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, Massachusetts. Her art blog KSL STUDIO is her art studio journal of art happenings, recent work, sketchbook drawings and travel photos that together explore her creative process. The Heated Palette blog is her newest website for all things encaustic including her teaching schedule, encaustic resources, art exhibitions, and will feature contemporary artists using encaustic today.
