Here is a website where you can view and buy my most current work

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

Horse

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.
Today's is a horse.
#drawingadayclub

Feather, flower, whatever

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it, and sharing an art tip too.
Today's drawing is a_________.
Today's tip: You don't have to interpret your work for people. They can make up their own minds. If it needs a label to make any sense at all, you failed to communicate anything with the actual artwork. I realise that I just threw the whole school of conceptual art out with that comment, I don't care, you can tell them where I live, I'm ready!
 (In conceptual art the concept is so much more important than the art that the art can even be made by some else and often is, most of it cannot be understood at all without the labels. Most of the Turner Prize stuff is conceptual art.).

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Koala

I'm creating a drawing a day, for two years, just for the art of it.
Today's is a koala.
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Kingfisher in flight

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.

Today's is a kingfisher in flight. (Actually yesterday's as I didn't manage to draw, happens a lot lately, two year olds are full on!)

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” 
― Albert Camus

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Dylan my son, Happy birthday.

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.
Today's is my son, drawn from life not a photo, he is two today!
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Flower on blue and why draw?

I'm creating a drawing a day, and the #drawingadayclub to share some beauty and tolerance, to intersperse the mundane and frightening content that makes up so much of our social media.

I'm creating a drawing a day to inspire other artists to return to art, share more art, or just work for pleasure in secret because I reminded them they love it - whatever their art form.

I'm creating a drawing a day, to grow as myself and set a good example to my children of creativity, purpose and persistence.

I'm creating a drawing a day to bring diverse people together over their love of art, people who never would have connected, who comment, join in, and in turn help one another.

I'm creating a drawing a day because people message me to say it helps them.

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Landscape in Derwent Inktence pencils

I'm creating a drawing a day, for two years, I'm three quarters of the way through.
This is yesterday's that I didn't manage to share last night.
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Flowers in acrylic

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.
Today's is flowers in acrylic.
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Rose

I'm creating a drawing a day, for two years, for practice and fun, to see what I learn by it.
Today's is a rose. (Actually yesterday's)
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Flowers and leaves

I'm creating a drawing a day, for some reason!
Today's is flowers.
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Flowers

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.
Today's is flowers.

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Dylan and Jasmine

I'm creating a drawing a day, for two years, just for the art of it.
Today's is my children.
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More black and white flowers

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.
Today's is flowers.
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Black and white peony 3

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.
Today's is a peony.
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Black and white Peony

I'm creating a drawing a day just for the art of it.
My kids have been ill, so this is the day before yesterday's picture.
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Landscape with white line

I'm creating a drawing a day, for two years, just for the art of it.
What other things last two years?
Today's is a landscape.
Where does it look like to you?
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#kirsteenlyons
#kirsteenlyonsart

Europe in a camper van and I'm 40 today!

I'm creating a drawing a day, for two years, just for the art of it.
Today is my birthday and I'm 40, I chose to draw what I hope will be one of the next big adventures, I can of course photograph and draw from all I see, I hope to design wonderful textiles inspired by the culture and colour of so many new places, wish me the courage and organisation to really do it!

You can see textile design here:
http://enchantedtextiledesign.blogspot.co.uk
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Bearded lizard

I'm creating a drawing a day, for two years, just for the art of it.
Today's is a bearded lizard.
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Fish, I like them and it's my drawing, so there!

I'm creating a drawing a day, for two years, to practice, inspire others and grow as an artist. I am fully fed up doing it at the moment, but I know from experience that if I hang in there I will get interested again soon.

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