KRISTINE BURNEKO

I'm an abstract painter, medical writer, and holistic nurse practitioner based in Frederick, Maryland. While my professional training is in medicine, I've been painting since I could hold a paintbrush, taking art classes in figure drawing, oil painting, cartooning, and acrylic painting with the League of Reston Artists, the Torpedo Factory, and the Delaplaine Center for the Arts.

I continued to create paintings and drawings through my teenage years, and eventually began designing tattoos, album covers, custom t-shirts, and painting commissioned portraits.  After college, I directed most of my artistic efforts to designing private practice websites and writing health science literature as I myself became a medical provider for almost 20 years.  
 
Now, I have decided to focus on abstract painting. I have exhibited at the TAG gallery and the Delaplaine gallery here in Maryland and participate year-round in art festivals and vendor shows.  I also continue to do commissioned work, both abstract and representational.  
 
The practice of painting has truly been a healing force and conduit of peace in my life.  My art work regularly illuminates corners of my soul that I have never visited before.  
 
These paintings are visual meditations and prayers, and my hope is that they will actually be windows for you, providing you with similar illumination and self-discovery - and even invite you to transcendence.