Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.
— Kurt Vonnegut
ink + stem is the fresh new offering from
multi creative Krista Sutton and her visual art home Krista Sutton Studios. Commissions and larger pieces are available there.
ink + stem is a unique way to get art and creativity into the hands of everyone and to cultivate beauty and joy and the relationships around us.
why now, during these uncertain times?……because these things are so important - now more than ever.
“Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. ”
“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. ”
“Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous. ”
A little background…
Krista Sutton is a Toronto and Los Angeles based full-time and passionate multi-creative. An accomplished international, Dora Award Nominated and award winning actor/singer/writer Sutton is a graduate of Toronto, Canada’s renowned UC Drama Program. She has studied and worked with some of the world’s most influential creatives: on stage - Robert Lepage (Canada), Herbert Olschok, (Germany) Jean-Jacques LeMetre (France), Paolo Consiglio (Italy), Robert Wilson (USA) and on screen - under the direction of Mary Harron, Paul Mazursky, Donald Petrie, Sudz Sutherland, Penelope Buitenhuis and opposite actors including Richard Dreyfus, Christian Bale, Joe Dinicol and Paul Sun-Hyung Lee.
An artist on stage and off she has worked as leather mask-maker, set designer, set builder, costumier, Artistic Director and many creative roles in between. If something creative is happening she is drawn in. Her intricate pen and ink (and sometimes watercolor and/or thread) art works in concert with all her artistic endeavors and mediums to inform and influence each other.
<<>>The art…
Working for hours and days and months on each pen and ink piece, Krista’s highly detailed works are rarely planned but emerge organically and in the moment. Nature’s patterns, layers, depth, rawness, unrestraint, unabashed seductiveness, organized chaos and how it shapes our memories and experiences inspire her. On these paper fields are childhood sense memories of bulrushes, berries and bees, of skies and lakes and their rhythmic relationship to the cities we inhabit. To put pen to paper and let these memories (not without their fair share of nostalgia!) emerge is a daily meditation. Her goal is to inspire others to come along with her. Through Sutton’s capturing of tiny details and the “smaller picture” of nature, our environment and the human-made objects around us, a larger picture and emotional response can emerge.
Behind the scenes…
Krista was born in Montreal to a family of creatives, entrepreneurs and antique dealers.
She is a mom at every step of the way to her sparkly, creative and kind kids - son, 12 and daughter 9 (who is the artist of the logo at left).
For commissions and larger works please visit: www.kristasuttonstudios.com
other creative work: www.kristasutton.com
