Kristin Nelson's work expresses a simplicity and innocence, which touches the deepest of our emotions. As an American primitive painter, Kristin has been collected and exhibited since the age of seventeen when, inspired by the death of President John F. Kennedy, she was moved to express her feelings in the painting "When the Kennedy's Were in the White House." A self-taught artist, she has continued to paint all her life, coming into national prominence when Jacqueline Kennedy purchased her painting of the White House from her first one-woman show