Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area Kathleen felt compelled to create from an early age.  She discovered the joys of drawing with charcoal and graphite in her early teens. Her parents encouraged her interest in art by gifting paints and other materials which she experimented with throughout high school, college and while raising her family of three children. During those years she attended art classes and workshops to develop her artistic skills. In recent years she completed the Creative Visionary Program with noted artist Nicholas Wilton and hopes to soon graduate from the Milan Art Institute Mastery Program. She also participates in and has won honors in a variety of regional art shows.

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Kathleen’s colorful work often employs abstract realism to highlight the less noticed or hidden nuances of nature. Animals, plants and flowers interact to offer a combined secret mystery and beauty.

She also uses color, shape and line to create abstracted landscape and floral inspired works that convey the awe and wonder she feels about nature. She hopes that viewers will find the joy of possibility in these imaginative scenes.