About The Artist

London-based abstract artist Courtenay Kusitor creates bold, intuitive paintings that map the terrain of human consciousness and invites the viewer into a space of awareness, perception and presence. Trained in Visual Communication at the University for the Creative Arts (UK), Courtenay brings to her practice a hybrid language of impressionist sensation and expressionist gesture, rich in vibrant colour and spontaneous mark-making.

In 2013, a life-altering head and spinal trauma shifted her sense of life and time and ignited a lifelong fascination with the nature of consciousness and being. That experience underpins her ever evolving visual enquiry: how unconscious states, conscious moments of presence and patterns of thought can be made visible. Drawing from psychology, neuroscience and spirituality, her work becomes an intuitive dialogue in questions of perception and of what it means to live fully, here and now.

Courtenay’s work has been shown across London at key fairs and galleries including The Other Art Fair and Women in Art Fair, demonstrating her engagement with the local creative community. Internationally, she is represented by Azart Gallery in New York and her work features in private collections in the UK, USA, South Korea and the UAE. Her inclusion in Saatchi Art’s “Undiscovered Artists to Know” and encouragement from Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Jerry Saltz - further highlights her international reach and growing presence as an established, contemporary female abstract artist.