Over the course of 22 years, Kristin’s focus was on Commercial Architecture; specifically, developer based multi-family residential, office, hotel and resort developments, retail, industrial, and land use planning. Her forte was working as a liaison between the developer, community groups and the city to attain land use redesignations and increased development potential. Her passion in architecture was the preliminary design, through sketches, and the coordination of all disciplines involved to bring the project to a successful completion. Her design of the GE Harris Office and Manufacturing building in Calgary for Hopewell Development, was awarded the 2001 BOMA Building of the Year and achieved the highest standard of green energy efficient design. Further to her architectural career, Kristin was involved in the community. She sat on the Board of both Theatre Calgary and The Calgary Opera and was a member of the Advisory Council for the School of Architecture at Montana State University. In 2006, when Paul and Kristin welcomed their daughter, Isabella, Kristin retired from Architecture and took on her new role as a full time ‘mom’.

Kristin has always loved all of the arts, especially painting. Her passion for fine art deeply inspired Kristin to try her hand at painting and thus created a watercolour series of 8 paintings of Mexican doors in 2014. The results of this series fueled her desire to commit to a new career as a fine art painter. Kristin and Paul traveled to Venice, Italy in October 2015 with the primary intention to immerse themselves in this magnificent city and subsequently each create a series of paintings. In 2023 they returned to Italy to share the beauty of the country with their daughter.  Below is the ongoing series of watercolour paintings that Kristin has created of the Venetian doors, canal scenes, and Roman historic architectural wonders. Kristin is passionately inspired to continue creating architectural subjects through watercolour paintings and is looking forward to travelling to other old-world countries, in pursuit of additional inspirational images.

‘As a retired Architect, I have always been drawn to the mystery, beauty, strength, intrigue and history that lies within and behind every door – I imagine who has passed through each one, who lived beyond, who tried to locate, and who closed the door behind them, never to enter again…….’