After my first one person show I was sent a tiny card with an illustration of a kite sailing across a blue sky, inside were the words “Congratulations you have found yourself, now anything is possible”. I now teach so that others may find their kite and string, so they can develop their individual artistic voice which will take them wherever they choose to go. I hope my paintings touch a heart, st
ir a sense of responsibility, or at least create an understanding that it is important to protect these precious species, so that future generations still see, in the wild, the wonders I have painted. Katie was honored to be the Connecticut Audubon Society’s 2014 “Artist of the Year”. Her work can be found in private collections in England, Australia, the United States of America and South Africa. A number of Katie’s works are in Dr. Shirley Sherwood’s Contemporary Botanical Artists Collection; and the Alisa and Isaac Sutton Collection. Her work has twice been accepted into the prestigious Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum’s ‘Birds in Art’. Exhibited at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA; Bell Museum of National History, University of Minnesota, MN; Weisman Museum, Minneapolis, MN; Tryon Swann Gallery, London, England; Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT, and the Newhouse Gallery New York, NY. Awards include, Don Harrington Discovery Center Merit Award for Excellence, Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden Biennial; Gold Medal for Excellence, Best in Show 2004.
