I’M Kirsty. Self-taught, Berkshire-based, 28 years OF DRAWING and roughly one million coloured pencils deep. No art school. No permission. Just the icons that raised me, rebuilt one pixel at a time.

I am inspired by nostalgia. When drawing portraits, I choose subjects who were important to me growing up- whether that be a favourite musician, actors, actresses, authors or pop culture icons who were instrumental to me figuring out who I was or wanted to be. At its core there is longing, a longing to go back in time and an underlying sense of dreams that are now over. Nostalgia can be heart-breaking but it can also be comforting and I find myself drawn to that, it pulls me back every time I want to create something new.