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I am a visual artist, currently focused on contemporary landscape based painting.
My paintings are my diaries, my renderings of both my experiences in nature mixed with observations, precious and rich.
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Inspired by the likes of Emily Carr, Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler, Lois Dod, Joan Eardly, Tom Thompson, Charles Burchfield, – to name a few! – I continue to work at interpretations which may be abstracted or more realistic, but all carrying the same notion, a suggestion of how I relate to our world, the passing of time, environmental degradation, and a changed climate.
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| Zahara Mountain | Andalusia |
Originally from the Pittsburgh, PA area I moved to DC for a “year,” thirty-four years later, I am still here and always have been working in the arts.
I distinctly recall the first art catalog I pulled off the stacks from the library in the small western PA town where I grew up.The book was a compilation of contemporary art with a photo of a Calder sculpture on it’s cover. I fell in love with art then and never looked back.
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| Beech Forest Memory |
I have been a Book Designer and Design Director for Time Life Books and Smithsonian Press, and for over a decade was an instructor at the Corcoran College of Art + Design. Painting and creating all the while.
Now, I am dedicated full time to my art practice, and this year my goal is to create a body of work compiled from years of various percolating ideas, and of course what comes spontaneously in the process.
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| Roots II |
Find me outside or in my new studio space,
Back Track Studios @ Mt Rainier By-The-Tracks Wells Avenue Art complex.
web: kate-mcconnell.com instagram: katemcconnellart email: klm@kate-mcconnell.com
