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Kristy Blackwell

Kristy Blackwell is a Toronto based painter using figurative realism to describe her thoughts on the human condition through a female lens. There is an accessible, common understanding in these images depicting beauty in the exposed and in the protected, beauty in strength and in vulnerability.

Trained in fine art at the University of Guelph and in computer animation at the University of Toronto, Kristy has had an accomplished career as a visual effects artist. Her passion remains rooted in fine art and its myriad traditional and non-traditional techniques and materials.

Kristy was raised in small town Manitoba and Ontario and has spent her adult life living and working in Toronto with her husband and two daughters.

Kristy’s work has won various awards and been featured in print and online art magazines. It is held in public and private collections.

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