Message from the Artist

I am an American visual artist with a home studio on three acres with two ponds in Union, Kentucky.

Caught in the whirlwind of modern life, the art of being still emerges as a precious gem, often overlooked amidst the clamor of streaming content. The demand for more immediacy and authenticity is ever-present even as we self-select filters to receive news and numb our own personalities and thoughts to fit the identities we’ve chosen. It is in only in a moment of stillness that accurate observations are made in real time. 

I make art that requires intense observation of how the light hits every fold and crease in each leaf and the shape, line, and texture of every hair, feather, and scale. Equally important, my art requires a lantern-light-like focus to capture accurately the context of my subjects.

May my artwork bring you delight and a reminder to create opportunities for stillness to make your own observations.

2025 Art Exhibitions

Lindsey Kiser

About Lindsey Kiser

I am an exhibiting visual artist, published illustrator, wife, and mother of two darling daughters living on three acres with the sound of spring peepers lulling us to sleep at night and the cackle of geese waking us each morning.

Inspiration comes during long periods of immersion in the outdoors on our front porch observing hummingbirds in action, in the field with our bird dogs, and on travels to wilderness areas.

I make art to instigate wonder and contemplation of long-held beliefs from new perspectives. My art stimulates conversation and bridges connections with old and new friends over our shared awe of the repeating patterns, intricate lines, and Truths discovered in the natural world.

In 2025, my “Wondrous Pollinators” collection of scratchboard art is on exhibition April 25 through June 28 and again August 8 through November 2 as part of the Charley Harper: Birds & Beasts Exhibition at the Headley Whitney Museum of Art in Lexington, Kentucky.

In October 2024, I was honored by Summerfair Cincinnati, Inc. with the “Aid for Individual Artist Award”, which came with a grant of $5,000. Grant recipients will showcase their best work in Summerfair Select at the Weston Art Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio from November 14 through January 11, 2026.

My work was exhibited in the 66th Annual Ann Arbor Street Art Fair ~ The Original in Ann Arbor, Michigan in July 2025.  I am delighted to share that the organizers of the art fair have asked me back for 2026 and allowing me to skip the application process!

I am a member of Kentucky Crafted, a program of the Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, which is supported by state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. As a result, my scratchboard art collections are exhibited annually in March as part of The Market at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky.

In April 2024, the board of the Friends of the Boone County Arboretum named me as its inaugural Artist-in-Residence for the next twelve months. (Learn more here). Prints of Silver Jubilee Blossoms, an original oil painting honoring the arboretum’s 25th birthday are available for purchase here and here. Similarly, in May 2022, ComposeArts named me its inaugural Featured Visual Artist. In 2016, the governor of Kentucky appointed me to serve on the board of the Kentucky Arts Council on which I served until November 2022.

Since 2018, I have had solo art exhibitions across Kentucky in art museums, a performing arts center, a university art gallery, libraries, a non-profit center, and a medical spa. My art has won international art awards and has been exhibited in juried group shows from Laguna Beach, California to New York City. (Learn more here). Also in that time frame, I illustrated two children’s books, The Royal Red Bird, written by Angela Rice, a composer, and A-Z for Me!, written by Mitzi Adams.

Currently, my work may be found at ADC Fine Art in Cincinnati, Ohio and Ft. Thomas, Kentucky; the permanent collections of the University of Kentucky, US Bank in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and the Boone County Arboretum; and by appointment in my home studio.

I earned my undergraduate degree in fine art with a double minor in biology and chemistry from Georgetown College. I 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, I earned my juris doctor (J.D.) at night from Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University, while, ironically, supporting myself by painting murals by day. I am a member of the International Society of Scratchboard Artists.

My art studio is in my home in Union, Kentucky, which is culturally in the South even though it is included in the Greater Cincinnati Metropolitan Area.