Kathy’s work focuses on the urban and rural American landscape for inspiration, capturing images in figurative abstraction with bold use of color.
“I paint life alla prima in oil and mixed media. I paint the things in life that spark my imagination and hold my attention both in my gypsy travels and day-to-day life. The beauty in the captured light, pattern and color relationships informs my painting.
I work in layers of acrylic paint, collage and oil pastel to create dynamic color combinations, depth and rich texture. The color relationships become the impetus in creating a cohesive whole. Painting for me is a rich intuitive process. Like music, a singular mark, drip or line can reveal emotion and create harmony within a painting. I paint fast sometimes building up and sometimes deconstructing leaving it raw and undone.
The pandemic has made me even more than a documentarian of time and place by capturing in time the sacred act of just being one with your brush and canvas.”
Originally from Salt Lake City, Utah, Kathy currently lives and works in Winchester, Virginia and Washington, D.C. both in her studio and as a plein air landscape painter with particular interest in rural Virginia and Maine landscape and interior scenes. She is an avid enthusiast of Manet, Matisse, Diebenkorn, Joan Mitchell to name just a few.
Kathy has exhibited in Virginia including Charlottesville, Winchester and Alexandria, Maine and Utah. This May she will show at Politics and Prose in Washington DC.
For more than 27 years, she continues to paint, study, exhibit and teach what the modernists came to believe - that painting art for art’s sake is the only way.
