“My passion for painting is rooted in my garden. I strive to translate my excitement about the experience of growth, light, and translucent colors from the earth to my canvas. Nature has always spoken to me whether it is the rushing of a waterfall or the burst of new green in the Spring. I am awed by the beauty around me and I love to share my vision through my paintings.”
In 2001 Kathy was invited to join a group of painters under the tutelage of the renowned artist, Richard Schmid. This opportunity renewed and revitalized her work and began a period of intense focus and rapid growth. Painting for these last 10 years with Schmid, his wife Nancy Guzik, and the group which has become known as the Putney Painters has provided invaluable support and inspiration.
The vision that she bestows on us with every brush stroke comes from a lifetime of intimate contact with nature. Along with her passion for nature and the interconnectedness of the natural world she is also an avid gardener and spends many pleasurable hours close to the flowers that she paints so magnificently. This close contact with her favorite subject provides her with not just a structural knowledge of flowers but a true love for the flowers, weeds, dirt and detritus of a natural, healthy garden.
Kathy believes in painting from life whenever possible and carries her paints on her frequent travels. While she believes that a well trained artist is able to paint anything skillfully, she has found that the intensity and emotion in her painting flows from her love of her subjects, whether still life, garden, figure, or the intimate landscape.
Kathy says, “I view the world with a painter’s eye, finding paintings in all of my everyday experiences and travels.”
AFFILIATIONS:
National Arts Club, NYC – Exhibiting Artist Member
– Painting selected for Permanent Collection
Salmagundi Club, NYC- Artist Member
Oil Painters of America – Signature Member
Allied Artists of America – Signature Member
Connecticut Watercolor Society – Signature Member
Putney Painters, Putney Vermont – Charter Member
Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters
RECENT AWARDS:
2018 Third Place Award – National Arts Club Exhibiting Artist Member Show
2017 President’s Award – National Arts Club Exhibiting Artist Member Show
2017 1st Place Still Life – Salmagundi Club, Still Life in Color Show
2015 Gamblin Oil Award for Landscape – Salmagundi Club 131st Members show
2014 Oil Painter of America National Juried Exhibition
– Best Signature Member Award of Excellence
2013 Salmagundi Club, John N. Lewis Memorial Award, Top Award, Nov 2013
2013 Oil Painters of America National Juried Exhibition –
Impressionist Award of Excellence
2013 Art Renewal Center Salon Competition – Finalist Landscape Category
2012 – Finalist Animal Category
2012 Western Art Collector Award of Excellence – Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters
Paint Out and Show, Jackson Hole, WY
2012 Salmagundi Club – President’s Award – Summer Show
2012 Jury’s Top 50 – Salon International 2012, Intl Museum of Contemporary Masters
of Fine Art, Greenhouse Gallery
2012 National Arts Club Members Show – House of Hydenryk Award
2012 Salmagundi Club – Herbert L. & R. Harmer Smith SCNY Award
2011 National Arts Club Members Show – President’s Award
2010 American Art Invitational – Saks Galleries Southwest Art Magazine Award of Excellence
2010 Alden Bryan Memorial Prize (First Prize) for a Traditional Landscape in Oil – Salmagundi Club Member Show
2010 Margery Soroka Memorial Award (First Prize) Salmagundi Club – Summer show
2010 Fine Art Views Online Exhibition – First Prize
2010 RayMar Art Competition – July Finalist
2009 Bayonet Farm Annual Plein Air Competition – First Prize
2009 Nomadas del Arte – Award of Merit
2007 National Arts Club – Portrait Award, EAM Show
2006 Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club John Manship Landscape Award
2006 National Arts Club Annual Online Exhibition – Peoples Choice Award
2006 International Artist Magazine Floral and Garden Competition – Finalist
2005 National Arts Club Annual Online Exhibition – Peoples Choice Award
2004 Hudson Valley Art Association Rayma Spaulding Award for Landscape
2004 International Artist Magazine Floral Competition – Finalist 2 times
2003 Connecticut Watercolor Society Esther Fay Memorial Award
2003 International Artist Magazine Floral Competition – Finalist
2003 National Arts Club Annual Online Exhibition – President’s Award
2000 National Arts Club EAM Show – House of Heydenryk Award
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS – SINCE 2002:
2014, ’08, ’10, 13 Oil Painters of America National Juried Exhibition
2013 Greenhouse Gallery – Two person show “Beyond the Still”
2013, 2012 Art Renewal Center Salon Competition
2012 American Masters Invitational, Salmagundi Club
2012 Salon International 2012 – Greenhouse Gallery
2012 Scottsdale Salon of Fine Art 2012 – Legacy Gallery
2012 Miller Gallery – Contemporary Impressionism Invitational
2012 Artists for the New Century – Bennington Center for the Arts
2012 Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters – Grand Teton NP
2012-2008 Settlers West (Tucson, AZ) Annual Invitational Miniature Show
2011-2012 Scottsdale Salon of Fine Art – Legacy Gallery
2010-2012 American Art Invitational – Saks Galleries – Award of Excellence
2010 Acadia Invitational – Argosy Gallery, Bar Harbor, ME
2010 Salmagundi Club Member’s Show – First Prize
2009 Fine Art Views – Dec. ’09 Competition – Best of Show
2009-2012 Windows to the Divine, Evergreen, CO, Invited Guest Artist
2009 Bayonet Farm Annual Plein Air Competition
2009 & 2005 Solo Show – National Arts Club, NYC
2008 Lyme Art Association Annual Landscape Show – Guest Artist
2009-2008 Nomadas Del Arte – Invitational Plein Air Exhibition
2010 Nomadas Del Arte – Keystone Artist
2011-2006 Telluride Plein Air – 1 of 30 artists accepted
2007 Women Artists of the West – Guest Artist
2007 Butler Museum – 71st Annual National Midyear Exhibit
2007 Connecticut Watercolor Society – CWS Award Winners Invitational
2008-2006 Richard Schmid Invitational Fine Art Auction – Ft. Collins, CO
2007 Exhibiting Artist Member Show National Arts Club – Portrait Award
2006 & 2003 Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club
2006 Allied Artists of America
2006 Arts for the Parks Top 200 Show
2005 Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club
2005 ROAR Exhibition – Aldrich Museum
2004 Arts for the Parks Top 100 National Touring Show
2004 Hudson Valley Art Association
2013-2001 Exhibiting Artist Member Show, National Arts Club, NYC
2002 Lyme Art Association – Art of New England
ARTICLES / FEATURES:
Summer 2014 edition Only Magazine, Nantucket
Plein Air magazine – Feature Article July 2014
Southwest Art Feature Article – “Drawn to the Garden” 2013
American Art Collector – “From Bud to Bloom” – March 2012
Southwest Art – “Petal Pushers” – May 2012
American Artist Studios 2012
American Artist – Feature Article – Jul/Aug 2011
Art of the West – Feature Article – May/Jun 2011
Fine Art Connoisseur – Artists Making Their Mark – May/Jun 2011
American Artist – Nov. 2010
Southwest Art Magazine – Artist to Watch, Aug. 2010
American Art Collector – Artist Focus, April, 2009
Art & Antiques Magazine – Spring 2008
International Artist – Feature Article – Jan. 2007 issue
International Artist – How did you paint that?
-Favorite Subject – 2005
-Still Life & Florals – 2004
-Floral & Garden – 2004
-Seascapes, Rivers & Lakes – 2004
American Artist Magazine & Website – July 2003
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