Mytho-poetic artist Kristina Campbell draws deeply from the well of her own life, inviting us to laugh, cry, and cuss 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.

Kristina Campbell makes art using whatever method seems the best choice in the moment: poetry, paintings, experimental film, sculpture, collage, felting or photography. This truly makes her a multi-media artist, possibly afraid of commitment, easily distractible and/or all of the above. Campbell enjoys rewriting Viking mythology, artfully creating new gods from the old ones. She carves portraits of these venerated gods (who often resemble her 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 cover of her first chapbook which will be released at her Artful : The Poets feature reading. “For An Art” is a limited edition of 150 chapbooks, individually numbered and signed, that will be available for sale at the reading.

Early praise of “For An Art” has included comparisons to Alan Ginsberg’s “Howl” and the lyrics of Lou Reed. This feeds directly into the soft underbelly of Campbell’s dreams, desires and delusions.