Isle of Palms Magazine Winter 2016-17

efore Gretta Kruesi found

her passion, she dabbled in a variety

of occupations – from professional

kite-surfing to owning a food truck

with a beachy theme – but now she’s

settled into life as a professional artist,

and she couldn’t be happier.

Though she said art has always come easily to her,

Kruesi didn’t decide to make it

her career until she found her

sweet spot: painting murals. Street art, specifically murals,

took hold of her while she was living in California.

Before I could start envisioning the random letters

and garish cartoons often spray-painted on the sides of

buildings, Kruesi pointed out that real street art is not to

be confused with graffiti. She’s been commissioned and

permitted to do all of her work – including, of course,

the much-anticipated mural that will soon appear on the

side of the public restroom building at the Isle of Palms

County Park.

LocaL artist Paints a

PubLic sPace

Gilding the

Throne

By DenIse K. JaMes

Photos courtesy of Gretta Kruesi.