Kristina Berrier is a multidisciplinary artist and educator, passionate and multi-faceted. Growing up in the piney woods of Northeast Texas, from which her art practice has continuously evolved in her international travels and moves around the state, to residing in the hill country of San Antonio, her great love is preserving and intentionally loving the land and it’s delicate balances. She finds wonder in the wildlife interactions and relationships in the vast eco-regions of the world, which has led her from the uplands of central Florida, to the Tabernas Desert in Spain, to the cloud forest of Costa Rica, to the Rocky & Smokey Mountains, to canyons of Texas, Arizona, and California, to the temperate kauri forests of New Zealand.
Kristina explores symbiosis, life cycles, biodiversity, and sustainability. These themes arrive from introspective reflection, time in nature, and research before she builds a world centered on the theme. An important tenet of her practice is creative re-use of materials, evidenced by her use of handmade paper, relief prints, and upcycled materials.
She finds compositional harmony in her collages by incorporating elements of painting, embroidery, and drawing to create reverence for the layered relationships of flora & fauna in various ecosystems. Sacred geometry and anthropomorphic renderings often appear as a visual language to bridge understandings of divine connections and humans as stewards and partners in conservation.
When Kristina isn’t creating, teaching, or participating in local art events with students, she can be found drinking sangria in her backyard with her dog and her husband, probably FaceTiming her sister and family.
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of our exploring will be to arrive at where we started and know the place for the first time.” - T.S. Eliot
