Kris Williams
Mixed Media
Artist Bio
Kris Williams began her career as an artist at a very early age when her obsession with horses led her to imagine them, read about them, and draw them as much as possible during her waking hours, and dream about them at night. As she grew and entered Kindergarten, her repertoire expanded to include traditional childhood themes like houses, trees, and flowers… and more horses.Putting art on the back burner as her education progressed, Kris studied mathematics and science in high school, but gravitated back to the arts in college, majoring in English and minoring in Art. She ultimately became an elementary school teacher, where she used her art skills with her students, designing creative activities and illustrations for them. At one time she even drew the stages of chick development from egg to hatching in super-sized full color on the chalkboard for her Kindergartners.
Kris took a hiatus from teaching and became a computer programmer writing business programs for mid-range IBM systems. During this time her creativity surfaced in writing elegant and efficient business programs. In addition, she fell in love with ceramics and tried her hand at wheel-thrown porcelain and stoneware pottery.
Having returned to teaching and since recently retired, Kris has now given herself permission to let the creative genie out of the bottle. Her love of nature is seen in her Prismacolor pencil drawings, and she is experimenting with using these pencils on a heated drawing table to produce brilliant encaustic (melted wax) images.
Her latest endeavor, however, is far from pencil and paper drawing. With the help of her husband, metal sculptor Tom Williams, Kris is branching out into metal sculpture produced using a plasma cutter and welder.
This is just the beginning!
Kris Williams began her career as an artist at a very early age when her obsession with horses led her to imagine them, read about them, and draw them as much as possible during her waking hours, and dream about them at night. As she grew and entered Kindergarten, her repertoire expanded to include traditional childhood themes like houses, trees, and flowers… and more horses.Putting art on the back burner as her education progressed, Kris studied mathematics and science in high school, but gravitated back to the arts in college, majoring in English and minoring in Art. She ultimately became an elementary school teacher, where she used her art skills with her students, designing creative activities and illustrations for them. At one time she even drew the stages of chick development from egg to hatching in super-sized full color on the chalkboard for her Kindergartners.
Kris took a hiatus from teaching and became a computer programmer writing business programs for mid-range IBM systems. During this time her creativity surfaced in writing elegant and efficient business programs. In addition, she fell in love with ceramics and tried her hand at wheel-thrown porcelain and stoneware pottery.
Having returned to teaching and since recently retired, Kris has now given herself permission to let the creative genie out of the bottle. Her love of nature is seen in her Prismacolor pencil drawings, and she is experimenting with using these pencils on a heated drawing table to produce brilliant encaustic (melted wax) images.
Her latest endeavor, however, is far from pencil and paper drawing. With the help of her husband, metal sculptor Tom Williams, Kris is branching out into metal sculpture produced using a plasma cutter and welder.
This is just the beginning!