Kirsteen Lyons Benson's own website to view, share, like and buy art

I have launched a new website to view, like, share and buy my art!

See it here:
https://www.kirsteen.art

Original artwork by Kirsteen Lyons-Benson (BA Hons)
Mixed media on paper.

Kirsteen Lyons is the child of two artists who met at Glasgow art school in the sixties, got married, and fled the city to a remote Scottish island, to live on a beach, in a tent, with two kittens and a chest of drawers.

Growing up in a craft pottery, and later a cottage in the woods, Kirsteen planned to rebel, and have central heating and breakdown cover when she grew up!

Grow up she did, and studied textile design, not fine art (more rebellion). She did very well at university winning two prestigious competitions and getting a job with Muraspec (a wallpaper manufacturer) straight out of uni, it was new product development, so she went from there to other innovation companies,
and tried all sorts of middle class ideas out, including paying a mortgage, and working in PR, but soon found her parents were correct - they are very overrated ideas.

Kirsteen tried selling paintings on line, London markets, starting and running a craft fair, starting a gallery and pottery, starting and running a face painting business, and finally returned to textile design to freelance from home, and be mum to a daughter and a son.

After designing fashion fabrics for Amanda Kelly Design Studios for a few years, she has recently made the switch back to interior fabrics and wallpaper and signed with an established and prestigious studio in Europe.

She has now fully come to terms with her hippy origins and feels she belongs in middle class suburban England like a Bengal tiger belongs on a water slide! For this reason Kirsteen spent the last two years travelling Spain, France and Portugal on a camper van!

Kirsteen creates original paintings inspired by nature and travel. She has painted and designed all her life, at no time is she more herself than with brush in hand, or a sticky juice carton and shoes belonging to her kids! 😂💙🎨✏️

Contact info:
Kirsteen Lyons (BA Hons)
+44 7799201417
kirsteenann@gmail.com
Facebook:
https://m.facebook.com/KirsteenBenson
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/artdreamsgallery

Youtube:
https://m.youtube.com/user/kirsteenartwork/videos

Blogs:

Art:
http://createadrawingaday.blogspot.co.uk

Textile design:
http://enchantedtextiledesign.blogspot.co.uk

Read about my travel and some artwork:
http://feelcreaterepeat.blogspot.com

Kids art projects:
http://artistmummy.blogspot.co.uk

New blog, Feel. Create. Repeat. By Kirsteen Lyons.

If you like what you see on this blog, you can find more current work and ideas by Kirsteen Lyons at:

https://feelcreaterepeat.blogspot.co.uk

Five ways you know you live with an artist:

Five ways you know you live with an artist:
1. At some distant time in the past the bath got stained an odd colour which will NEVER come off.
2. They alternate between ignoring the house and ranting at you because you left one thing in the livingroom in a clashing colour.
3. The minute you get home you're pounced on to admire finished work, "honestly" but you're still in the dog house if you don't like it!
3. You go through periods where you're surrounded by only stuff from a certain period or style that the artist is currently obsessed with, such as ancient Japan or 1920s Paris.
5. They aren't too good with numbers!

Sugar, wheat and dairy free chocolate and banana flapjacks

Three fresh bananas mashed
Dried bananas chopped (half a pack)
Cocoa (table spoon)
Pear and apple spread (table spoon)
Honey (table spoon)
Oats until it's slacked up and thick.

Squish it in to a backing tray.

10 minutes medium heat.

I took a large box of large game bullets, and went to the wild.

Short story by Kirsteen Lyons

I took a large box of large game bullets, and went to the wild.

When I had consumed every luxury man makes I was dull, and jaded by every vice. I took a large box of large game bullets, and went to the wild.

I was eager to consume new things, know new things. I used the large box of large game bullets and consumed rhino, and cheetah, and elephant, and ibex, but I did not see tiger.

I made a fire on the edge of the forest and ate and ate...

I used the large box of large game bullets and consumed giraffe, and wild dog, and python and leopard, but I did not see tiger.

I made a new fire of the edge of the forest and ate and ate...

...I grew very fat, first it was hard to run, then it was hard to walk, and still I consumed until I had consumed all of the large box of big game bullets.

I made a fire on the edge of the forest and ate and ate...that is when I saw tiger.

Tiger was vast and orange and he walked his vast white smile out of the forest and sat it down next to me.

Tiger spoke in a polished brass purr, “Why did you come to the wild?”

I looked at tiger’s vast white smile and I tried to explain, “I wanted to consume more, I wanted to have what men had and what animals had, I wanted their experiences, their knowledge in me.”

“And did you consume their knowledge?” Tiger asked.

Now I smiled, “I must have, I said, patting my fat body, for it is all inside me.”

Tiger smiled wider, “Well now, I can teach you something about knowledge, it is never consumed; only ever shared.”

And so I understood.

And then it was tigers turn and he consumed me.

By Kirsteen Lyons

How do Mermaids poo. Free childrens story by Kirsteen Lyons and Jasmine Benson

How do Mermaids poo. Free childrens story by Kirsteen Lyons and Jasmine Benson

Print out or read online.

Kirsteen Lyons Artist and Designer

Kirsteen Lyons BA (Hons) attended Heriot Watt University where she studied Textile Design and specialised in print. At university she won two industrial competitions and was headhunted as a result for her first textiles job.

She also distinguished herself at University by being one of only a few students in the country to have work exhibited in Glasgow’s flagship “Lighthouse Design Centre.”

From Textiles she moved to P.R where she achieved results which include BBC radio 4, BBC World service, The Express, A Stevie award (televised nationally in the USA) and countless local awards and media.

Returning to art Kirsteen teamed up with Kitty Atkinson MA (Hons) to start their own gallery and pottery studio for some years before successfully selling the business to another potter. She then spent some time on being a mum and running a face-painting business.

With her daughter starting school Kirsteen returned to work with the launch of "Enchanted Textile Design" creating drawing-led, contemporary textile design. She has continued to grow the business and now has a son as well.

Here is a comment from one of her clients: "First and foremost, the prints you sent us are AMAZING! I'm very glad I signed you as an artist, your work is impeccable! I'm happy with what you sent us. Your work is perfect for us."

You can see more from Kirsteen at:

Textile design:
http://enchantedtextiledesign.blogspot.co.uk/

Art:
http://createadrawingaday.blogspot.co.uk/