Mytho-poetic artist Kristina Campbell draws deeply from the well of her own life, inviting us to laugh and cry right alongside her. With disarming vulnerability and sharp insight, she leads us straight to the heart of the matter, poking fearlessly into the soft underbelly of her dreams, desires and delusions.
Campbell is the founder of Artful Existence Counselling and Facilitation (2018) and the driving force curator of Artful : The Gallery (2020), a creativity facilitating hub of activity in the Comox Valley that earned Campbell the Nonny Milne Award in 2024 for Outstanding Contribution to the Arts.
Multi-media artist Campbell makes art using whatever method seems the best choice in the moment: poetry, paintings, experimental film, sculpture, collage, felting or photography. She enjoys rewriting Viking mythology, artfully creating new gods from the old ones. She carves portraits of these venerated gods, who often resemble her friends and family members, into wood panels and burnishes them with umber, reds and gold leaf to glorify, immortalize and sometimes mock them.
Campbell uses Runes, the Viking alphabet, for divination, to tell stories, and for writing secrets in public. She has designed and created a hand-coloured ‘bind-rune’, a unique design incorporating several runes, for the hand-coloured cover of her first poetry collection “For An Art”, published by The Poem Factory in July 2026.
Website:http://www.artfulthegallery.com/
Social Media Links:https://www.instagram.com/kristinacampbellartist/
Mytho-poetic artist Kristina Campbell draws deeply from the well of her own life, inviting us to laugh and cry right alongside her. With disarming vulnerability and sharp insight, she leads us straight to the heart of the matter, poking fearlessly into the soft underbelly of her dreams, desires and delusions.
Campbell is the founder of Artful Existence Counselling and Facilitation (2018) and the driving force curator of Artful : The Gallery (2020), a creativity facilitating hub of activity in the Comox Valley that earned Campbell the Nonny Milne Award in 2024 for Outstanding Contribution to the Arts.
Multi-media artist Campbell makes art using whatever method seems the best choice in the moment: poetry, paintings, experimental film, sculpture, collage, felting or photography. She enjoys rewriting Viking mythology, artfully creating new gods from the old ones. She carves portraits of these venerated gods, who often resemble her friends and family members, into wood panels and burnishes them with umber, reds and gold leaf to glorify, immortalize and sometimes mock them.
Campbell uses Runes, the Viking alphabet, for divination, to tell stories, and for writing secrets in public. She has designed and created a hand-coloured ‘bind-rune’, a unique design incorporating several runes, for the hand-coloured cover of her first poetry collection “For An Art”, published by The Poem Factory in July 2026.
Website:http://www.artfulthegallery.com/
Social Media Links:https://www.instagram.com/kristinacampbellartist/
