A Swell Weekend Painting

Kristen Guest is an award-winning and published full-time artist and art instructor in San Diego, California. She graduated from art school at Middle Tennessee State University with a degree in Art Education, that focused on painting, book arts and printmaking, and has been teaching realism painting since 2004 and abstract painting since 2018. Kristen currently works in three mediums: acrylic, oil, and pencil.Kristen lives in North Poway, close to the Rancho Bernardo area of San Diego and works out of her home studio, with a local showcase room in Studio 6 at Ashton Gallery in the North Park area of San Diego. She is a Mentoring Artist and the Director of Education at Art on 30th, an arts community in San Diego's North Park historic arts district. Kristen recently became a Teaching Artist for R&F Paints and shares her love and knowledge of their Pigment Stick product line.Her work is currently represented through Ashton Gallery in San Diego CA and Janssen Artspace in Palm Springs CA, and has been on exhibit with Sandstone Gallery in Laguna Beach CA, Borrego Art Institute in Borrego Springs CA, The Athenaeum Arts & Music Library in La Jolla CA, Huntington Beach Art Center in Huntington Beach CA, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center in Port Angeles WA, Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, IL, Jen Tough Gallery on Artsy, and Saatchi's The Other Art Fair Online Studios Los Angeles.