Bio & Statement

Artist & Practice ⭐

Keturah McKitterick is a contemporary symbolic mixed media artist based in Kansas whose work explores spiritual identity, memory, restoration, and the interconnected nature of human experience. Working through layered processes that include painting, collage, thread, and intuitive mark-making, she creates works that function as visual reflections on transformation, faith, and becoming. Her practice is grounded in the belief that human experience is deeply interwoven — shaped by what is seen, what is remembered, and what is spiritually understood.

Some daughters bloom loudly. Others quietly tend.

Daughter Who Tends honors the sacred work of faithfully caring for what has been placed in our hands—our gifts, relationships, prayers, and dreams. Dressed in blue and standing among wildflowers, she pours out with gentleness and intention, carrying the reminder that even unseen acts of tending become beautiful gardens in time.

This piece is part of my Daughters of the Most High King series, a collection of symbolic mixed-media works exploring identity, faith, and the quiet ways God forms us.

Artist Statement

I am a contemporary symbolic mixed media artist creating layered works that combine painting, collage, thread, printmaking, and intuitive mark-making.

I explore spiritual identity, restoration, memory, symbolism, and the interconnected nature of human experience. My work is rooted in the idea that our lives are not separate or isolated, but deeply interwoven — with God, with one another, and with the unfolding stories that shape who we become.

This matters to me because I am interested in how we process what is unseen: faith, healing, grief, transformation, and becoming. I use material layering as both a visual and emotional language — building surfaces that hold traces of tension, fragmentation, endurance, and restoration. These layers mirror lived experience, where meaning is not linear but built over time through both rupture and repair.

Through this work, I invite viewers into quiet, reflective spaces where symbolism can be felt as much as it is seen. I hope the work opens space for contemplation, personal interpretation, and spiritual awareness of the interconnectedness of life.