ABOUT
b: 1972, Rochester, MN
Kendra Marable lives and works in Lawrence, KS
I've been making art since I was very young. I used to sit and draw for hours at the little table with yellow chairs that my grandpa made for me. When I outgrew that, my dad made me a really great desk surrounded by bookshelves and places to keep my treasures. I've always been a pack-rat.
I feel like the older I get the more I want to revert to that feeling I had while sitting at both of those desks. I'm happiest when my hands and mind are busy yet lost in the activity of making something that wasn't there before. The overall sense of well-being I get from being inside an idea and finding my way out is a process that makes me happy to be alive.
Being an artist allows me to pursue so many facets of myself. To communicate visually means I am constantly seeking out and soaking up experience in order to spit it back out in a different shape. I feel incredibly lucky and grateful to partake in this process daily. Its a combination of listening to my guts, taking chances, experimenting, getting lost, finding meaning, and ultimately trusting.
