Krysta Bernhardt
Krysta Bernhardt is a multi-talented artist, educator, and publisher based in southeastern Pennsylvania, passionate about inspiring creativity in others. She creates art that explores themes of light and darkness, joy and despair, and the shared human experience.
Even as the world burns and the impermanent parts of us melt away, there still lives a small, colorful spark of gentle beauty.
Portrait
Women spend so much of their lives trying to live up to unattainable standards of beauty, when underneath everything, we are all just a bag of bones.
Pencil
Sunshine In My Eyes
Honestly, I drew this during the first Trump administration and this is how I felt (and currently feel) the majority of the time. Even when the sun is shining, the weight of the world often feels like I am melting out of my own skin.
Pencil
The Walls Have Eyes
This piece is drawn from a reading of Orwell's 1984. In our ever more Orwellian society, with cameras basically attached to the ends of our arms, around the clock security cameras and Ring doorbells, it increasingly does feel like the walls have eyes.
36"W x 24"H Acrylic
I Am in Them and That is Eternity
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.” ― Edvard Munch
49.5 W x 37.5 H x 2" D (with frame) Acrylic