Welcome to my online gallery of “transparent” watercolors and new oil paintings. I love to create an impression of luminosity in my subjects of wildlife and nature and call my style of painting “impressionistic realism”. While balancing good design concepts, my goal is always to render a likeness creatively rather than photo realistically.

Kathleen applies “singing” color.
Please browse this site to learn more about my work and how I get my inspiration. I accept a limited number of painting commissions each year and welcome inquiries and feedback via the “contact” page. I also love sharing my painting techniques with my art students and we learn together to see the world through “artist eyes”. I invite you to join one of my workshops which are listed on this website.
New techniques are always exciting and I recently experimented with watercolor on canvas… favorite subjects and media on a different texture. And my latest artistic adventure is working with “oil and cold wax medium”, first taking several workshops to learn the process and then spending some time in my studio playing with all of my new art supplies. I’ll be continuing to post new “contemporary impressionist” paintings during 2020.