Who Can Fanthom the Depth Painting

My work explores the human condition socially, collectively and spiritually. I am fascinated by myth and legend which tends to suggest a collective consciousness. My research includes a lot of reading. Initially I read a broad overview then specifically. I draw and draw and draw then abstract until the image conveys my intent. I always paint from one of my drawings, once the brush is my hand, I intuitively choose the palette. My marks are sometimes heavily impasto and sometimes minimalistic. Like most artists I enter my own world and my dialogue with the painting is intense and passionate until completed. My studio is in my back garden, many times I work outside, so I am not confined. More often than not, I paint to classical or ethnic music. My solo exhibition Christos engendered emotional response and to my surprise more men cried than women I am very influenced by the Abstract Expressionists. Kathleen won a Fine Arts Committee Award-Highly Commended 2006 and an Award for Academic Excellence 2008 from Griffith University. In 2011 she held a solo exhibition at St. John Boscoe Catholic Church Kenilworth. The exhibition entitled Christos ran concurrently with the Kenilworth Celebrates festival. She has also exhibited a body of works entitled To Believe at the Ormiston Meditation Centre in 2012.