Kathleen Warren of Pittsford Fine Art will showcase her work on Friday, June 6 from 5 to 8 p.m.
Kathleen Warren turned to painting twenty years ago after full time employment in a corporation for twenty-six years, working primarily in a marketing capacity. She paints in oil and watercolors. Kathleen believes her artistic endeavors enhance her own life as it can do it for others. Paintings provide daily enjoyment in a person’s surroundings.
As Claude Monet said, “I perhaps owe becoming a painter to flowers.” Kathleen’s initial creative endeavors, while employed full time, focused on flower arranging. Flowers remain a passion and her favorite painting subject. She likes to capture light and shadows, while depicting the bold and beautiful colors of flowers and leaves as sunlight provides highlights or passes through or behind. Her product is what she wants an observer to see. She calls it “impressionistic realism.”
Her goal is to create lasting beauty from what appeals to her own esthetic, including still life designed by herself, landscapes or waterscapes views, bird captures, plant life, or architecture. Helen Van Wick has written, “An artist’s real contribution is the expression of his (or her) own reaction to the world around him.” Almost every day an artist finds new subjects that could become paintings.
Kathleen’s primary influencers include Judy Soprano, Pat Rohrer, George Van Hook, Mary Whyte, Kyle Stuckey, Kelli Folsom and Elizabeth Robbins. Her favorite artist is Richard Schmidt.
Kathleen’s education includes a BA from Elmira College, and an MBA from the University of Rochester. Her education as an artist had been developed primarily through in-person and online workshops in the Rochester and Charleston, NC areas.
Meet Kathleen at the First Friday reception at Pittsford Fine Art, June 6, from 5 to 8 pm. You can also see more of her artwork at pittsfordfineart.com.
Pittsford Fine Art, a gallery owned and run by 23 prominent regional artists, is open Tuesday through Friday, noon to 5 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 11 am to 5 p.m. and until 8 p.m. each First Friday. Original art, art prints and notecards make unique gifts and are available for purchase at the gallery. Parking is available in front of the gallery, at 4 North Main Street, or in the nearby public parking lot. Pittsford Fine Art is on the web at pittsfordfineart.com and on Facebook at facebook.com/PittsfordFineArt
“Tulps with Cocktail” by Kathleen Warren
“Fairport Garage” by Kathleen Warren
“Roses and Ranunculus” by Kathleen Warren
