Kathryn Gabinet-Kroo

“Preserving the moment, forming a memory but without the nostalgia, that wistful desire to return to a former time in one's life, that sentimental yearning for lost happiness. By painting these images, I can recreate or rediscover the happiness of a certain time and place and express my appreciation for the earth's beauty, which I find in the simplest things ‒ a flower, a face, a branch, a fish underwater ‒ and show the world what and how I see. I stop, linger, study what to other people is simply visual information to be quickly processed and then forgotten in their urgency to get somewhere else. Color, shape, light and pattern always catch my eye, then clamor to be translated into a language spoken in paint on paper, panel or canvas.”

I was born and raised in Oregon (USA) and now live in Montreal (Canada). I began my artistic career studying life drawing and black and white photography at the Boston Museum School. When I moved to Montreal, I found myself without a darkroom, so I began experimenting with watercolors and later with oils. The world of color opened itself up and as a self-taught painter, I developed a technique that suited my realistic paintings.

After a decade of showing these works in solo and group shows, I ...

MA Translation Studies, Concordia University (Montreal, Québec)
Certificate in Translation, McGill University (Montreal, Quebec)
BA English, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)

June 2018: Reveries (Stanstead, Quebec Canada)
June 2018: Aqua (Montreal, Canada)
May 2018: Flower Flow (London, England)
March 2018: For the Birds (Montreal, Canada)
Nov. 2017: Everybody Knows: un hommage à Leonard Cohen (Montreal, Canada)
June 2017: Cadence 2 (Montreal, Canada)
Oct. 2016: 9 1/2 (Montreal, Canada)
May 2016: So Says - Ainsi Dit (Montreal, Canada)