Artist Bio
Kerith Glass is a mixed media artist whose work explores the intersections of identity, memory, emotion, and the natural world. Through expressive portraits, botanical imagery, and richly layered surfaces, she creates paintings that invite quiet reflection while celebrating resilience, growth, and transformation.
Working intuitively, Glass combines acrylic paint with collage, fabric, handmade papers, monoprints, found materials, embroidery, and stitched elements. She embraces the history embedded within each material, allowing torn edges, layered textures, and visible marks to become part of the visual narrative. Her paintings balance bold color with contemplative figures, creating spaces that feel both intimate and expansive.
For more than twenty-eight years, Glass has worked as an art therapist and psychologist, helping individuals use creative expression to process emotions and experiences. That professional practice deeply informs her artwork, though her paintings are not intended to illustrate therapy. Instead, they reflect a lifelong belief in the power of creativity to foster curiosity, connection, healing, and self-discovery. Her figures often inhabit dreamlike environments filled with flowers, gardens, and organic forms that symbolize renewal, resilience, and the continual process of becoming.
Inspired by the tactile nature of mixed media, Glass builds each composition through an intuitive dialogue between color, texture, and material. She is drawn to the unexpected relationships that emerge when painted papers, fabric, and found objects are layered together, allowing each work to evolve through experimentation and discovery. Rather than concealing the construction of the painting, she celebrates its visible layers as evidence of time, change, and transformation.
Glass's work invites viewers to slow down and engage with the details of each surface, discovering moments of beauty within complexity. Through expressive color, layered materials, and contemplative imagery, her paintings offer spaces for reflection while honoring the imperfect, evolving nature of both art and human experience.