About

Kirsten Coco has been painting portraits in Houston, Texas since 1984. Her portraits are distinctive because she includes personal details and important keepsakes that illuminate the attributes and personality of the subject. She creates custom portraits in oils in her unique style of rich detail and jewel tone colors. Kirsten's images are works of beauty and love, capturing the true human spirit.Kirsten's love of painting began when she was a young child. She has always enjoyed the artistic process using watercolors and oils as a creative expression of her art. Her current paintings are in oils but are painted in a Beaux-Arts watercolor technique, building the painting up through multiple thin transparent layers of colors. Each painting requires hundreds of hours to complete, creating a luminous depth. Kirsten has lived in many cities around the world. After spending her high school years on a kibbutz in Israel, she came to Houston, Texas, where she earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees in architecture from Rice University. Having practiced architecture for fifteen years, she began painting professionally in 1984 and is a member of the Portrait Society of America. Kirsten Coco is currently accepting new clients, so please stop by her studio or check out her website.

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