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Message from the Artist

I am Lindsey Kiser, an exhibiting nature artist living in northern Kentucky across the river from Cincinnati and just down the road from Big Bone Lick Historic Site, the source of the fossils that inspired President Thomas Jefferson to send Lewis and Clark on their great expedition that opened the west. Like Jefferson, I draw inspiration from found natural objects, such as birds’ nests and acorns. Only instead of sending out scientists and adventurers on a quest across the continental divide, I cradle my found natural objects in man-made, highly reflective goblets and vases, photograph my compositions hundreds of times, paint from my photographs, and then exhibit each new series of artwork for you to purchase and treasure. It is my hope that my artwork brings you as much wonder and connection to the land as it does me.

Lindsey Kiser

About Lindsey Kiser

Lindsey Kiser is an exhibiting visual artist, published illustrator, wife, and mother of two darling daughters. After long, solitary periods of immersion in the outdoors, the artist makes art to instigate wonder and contemplation of long-held beliefs from new perspectives.

She carefully arranges natural found objects, such as birds nests and feathers, within reflective crystal vessels, photographs the compositions, and, using these references, paints on canvas or scratches her artwork in scratchboard with tattoo and sharpened sewing needles. In addition, the lines and unusual forms in landscapes and native plants observed while traveling become her jumping off point for a new series of artwork.

Yes, Lindsey loves travel, the Great Outdoors, and making and exhibiting art. These are just a few reasons people are surprised to learn that she graduated with honors from law school and practiced patent law for fourteen years before returning to art full time in September 2022.

In May 2022, Lindsey was nominated by the board of ComposeArts to be the organization’s inaugural Featured Visual Artist. In 2016, the governor of Kentucky appointed Lindsey to serve on the board of the Kentucky Arts Council on which she served until November 2022.

Over the last six years, Lindsey has had solo art exhibitions across Kentucky in an art museum, a performing arts center, a university art gallery, libraries, a non-profit center, and a medical spa. She has won international art awards and exhibited in juried group shows from Laguna Beach, California to Rhode Island to the Kentucky Artisan Center in Berea. Also in that timeframe, Lindsey illustrated two published children’s books, The Royal Red Bird, written by Angela Rice, a composer, and A-Z for Me!, written by Mitzi Adams.

Currently, Lindsey’s work may be found at ADC Fine Art in Cincinnati, Ohio and Ft. Thomas, Kentucky; the permanent collection of US Bank in Bowling Green, Kentucky; and by appointment in her home studio.

Kiser earned her undergraduate degree in fine art with minors in biology and chemistry from Georgetown College. She studied 19th Century British art history under the late Ilaria Bignamini, a curator for the Tate, and drawing at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at the University of Oxford in Oxford, England. Buying into the myth of the starving artist, Lindsey earned her juris doctor (J.D.) at night from Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University, while, ironically, supporting herself by painting murals by day.

Lindsey’s art studio is in her home in Union, Kentucky in the Greater Cincinnati Metropolitan Area.