Kaysha Siemens is an award-winning artist currently specializing in oil, egg tempera, and graphite. Originally hailing from Canada, she spent much of her young life traveling the Provinces and United States with her family, as they relocated multiple times for her father's work. From these changing vistas, she gained a deep love for the wide open expanse of the world, and the natural beauty it holds in all its varieties. Whether it be the overcast tide pools of the Pacific coast, or the lush greenery of the Appalachian mountains, the natural world inspires and sustains her. She pays homage to this love in all of her work, whether it be the delicate shapes of leaves and branches, or the beautiful play of natural light over skin, with a particular approach and a mind for research and detail. An avid reader since early childhood, her mind is populated with the tales and figures of myths and legends. She brings elements of these into fusion with her close observation of nature and to convey a sense of narrative in her work by drawing attention to moments of folklore, mythology, and literature that may otherwise be overlooked.
Kaysha Siemens is a regular on Every Day Original, a member of the Portrait Society of America, Oil Painters of America, American Women Artists, and the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society. She was a Finalist in the 2023 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, and was a finalist and semi-finalist in the Art Renewal Center’s Annual International Salon 2019 and 2022. She has studied with notable artists such as Brad Kunkle, Julio Reyes, and Patricia McMahon Rice while honing her own skills and alongside her distinctive voice and vision. Siemens desire to make art goes back as far as her earliest memories and she has been making a living from her art since before she finished college. After a brief foray into experimentation with digital mediums and watercolors, she returned to her true passion of oil painting. From her home in Swannanoa, just outside of Asheville, North Carolina she puts her knowledge and appreciation of nature to practical application by tending to lush gardens on her property. She travels a number of times a year to share her work with collectors, and also encourages the travel of others through the region by opening her home to friends and colleagues when they visit. Siemens work can be found on her website, in galleries locally and nationally, in person at a number of shows each year, and visiting by appointment in her studio that is located on her property.