Kathleen Grace

As an artist and art photographer, I like to convey a sense of time and place, and emotion in my work. What motivates me to create art is color, beauty and a sense of fulfillment. And photography is my rock - the sense of being out in the world being in my right place, and creating works in post that fit the feeling. What you'll find available here are prints offered by Saatchi, quality fine art prints.

For photography, I had for inspiration all the magazines I poured through growing up, the photographers all bringing the world to my eyes - LIFE, LOOK, National Geographic - where the pictures spoke volumes about the experience.

I am not a technical photographer, I always get too enthralled with capturing scenes to stick with the technical aspect, I am an artist and look from that perspective, use photography as a tool. Much work I do in post. Photography came first, in childhood with my first camera at age 6. Studying painting and art later, in my 30s took my first art class, and it changed me, filled me with more, spent 10 years learning more, and photography became a tool for the artist, one I love. Painting works with me from the inside, photography from the outside.

The paintings are inspired by multiple artist, th...

My arts education was gained in a more traditional manner, spending almost 10 years studying art at college and university level with four outstanding teachers and contemporary artists, and in private workshops with those artists. I studied drawing with multiple teachers after finding significant differences in the means of teaching. I spent four years studying life drawing and artist's anatomy. And studio painting and mixed media for six years. Learning as much as I could was the goal to understand inside and out. My studies also included advertising/graphic design, production art and fine art studio arts.

In photography I also trained in a more old tradition way, studying with two master photographers from the old school Hollywood entertainment industry. My first experience professionally was working in the dark room for a major television network, with two studio photographers. And I studied with them and learned. I went on to Nikon school workshops, college photography classes, and worked with two major photo labs in the Los Angeles and San Diego regions.

Pictorialism is what I would call the style of my photography, and my painting would be somewhat abstract expressionism or lyrical abstraction.