KATHY EDMONSTON

 

“Moving to the Cape was like coming home for me. 

The landscape, the air, the light…. my heart always leading me to the ever-changing

 landscape. Soon I found a way to express that response through painting.

 

BIOGRAPHY

As a child, Kathy loved to draw, but never had the opportunity to explore that love or to develop deeper skills.  A few art courses in college but then she was off to a 25-year career in advertising and publishing.   In 2005, shortly after the death of her mother, Kathy signed up for a class in pastel painting, looking for distraction and hoping for some solace.  Pastel was the key that unlocked her love of color and desire to work with her hands.

   Since then, Kathy has studied with many renowned artists including Susan Ogilvie, Rosalie Nadeau, Odin K. Smith, Robert Carsten, Terry Ludwig, Liz Haywood-Sullivan and Mary Moquin.

   Kathy's work often expresses the intimate place in the landscape, or the dramatic edge in a still life.  Her work has the depth and richness of color and texture that is often associated with oils.

   An award winning pastelist who has been juried into many local exhibitions and several national shows, Kathy is a juried artist member of the Cape Cod Art Association and serves on the board of the Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod.  She is an active member of a group of pastelists on Cape Cod.  They often study together and work together (especially outdoors), and they learn from each other.

   “To state what so many others have said before me, and perhaps more eloquently… the beauty and light that is uniquely Cape Cod is a constantly renewing source of inspiration to me.  Painting increases one's ability to see.  The more you look, the more you see.  Every work opens me to see more of this great natural beauty, Cape Cod.”