Kristie A. N. Stephenson was born in Kingston, Jamaica.   
Story and Myth, female archetypes and universal symbols found through out the world's cultures influence her work.  They emerge from her memories, emotions and subconscious. Works have been created for commissions and charitable organizations as well as held in public and private collections. 

Her body of work includes creating a series of paintings that dealt with universal themes of Peace and Protection which raised the funds for her to travel to Galle, Sri Lanka with a local Miami group, called The Miami Tsunami Reconstruction Team to help rebuild after the December 2004 tsunami. 

She participates in exhibitions and arts related workshops throughout Miami and has created a female archetype drawing activity template for use in these workshops with women and girls. 

Each painting she creates has a story behind the piece.  It serves to bring people together to learn about other cultures myths and folktales and how they can provide comfort, community and give us a sense of peace from what goes on around us.

Touching on subjects of the past and the human experience, my themes evoke the sacred feminine and female sexuality. By exploring multicultural spiritual ideas of myth and legend, with works that incorporate the collective unconscious. Chronicling experiences of women in society these experiences are represented as a message of empowerment. My subjects are not portraits they are female archetypes that exist in my subconscious. These paintings are part of an ongoing series sometimes representing a past experience or an awoken unconscious idea.  Story and Myth inspire my artwork, the characters are often a blend of several female archetype figures that we find in history, folklore, myth or within ourselves.  I also incorporate symbols into my work.  These symbols I find in many cultures throught the world, they all help to unite us as a global community, to remind women of their history and to spread my message of empowerment, goodwill & peace.