Thank you for your interest in my work. This website is an introduction and not intended to be all-inclusive. If you would like to see more work, historical as well as what is available, please click on this site:
https://www.artworkarchive.com/profile/kit-hoisington
Why do I draw and paint? I was raised by a working mother who studied art at Yale University, and she put crayons in my fingers as soon as she thought I had figured out how to use them. The first painting I remember doing was when I was 3, of my teddy bear, wearing an Indian headdress like a skirt. I remember it because an artist frend of my mum's had it framed, and so it became part of my childhood. Drawing and painting was as natural to me as learning to read, ride a bike or play with other kids: something one simply did.
I've traveled professionally a lot. I've lived in several countries and speak a few languages, so I feel at home in most places and easily find connections with people. We are more alike than we are varied. I have had work in shows and galleries and in private collections in several countries. I've also been Visiting Artist, summers at Art Study in Giverny, France. I now work in my studio full-time, or draw and paint outside, with some time out to travel (well, maybe again one day) and to get into the ocean as often as possible.
I work in series. Here you see some of my current work, primarily my Habitat series and also sketches done in ink and water colour while traveling.
Under "History" I've also listed of the older series including Portraits of People; Trees and Tree Portraits; Water and Waves; Flowers and Still Life; Koi Pool and Waterlilies; and illustrations for authors.
A primary reason I paint comes from my love of the natural world. I try to convey a sense of the beauty of things that grow, of the light on trees or the ocean. Some of it is made more urgent by my awareness of environmental damage: too many forests destroyed; ocean ecologies threatened. This is the source of my Habitat series where oceans and forests are the represented habitats, and fish and birds the representative species. They are biologically linked, but I've mixed them together. I usually don't attempt to put an environmental message in my paintings, but I am pleased when studio visitors looking at my paintings comment on the beauty of trees or the ocean and how much they love them. This series does take the importance of the environment one step further.