Kathy grew up in Ottawa, Canada. In 1973 she moved to the Lake Clear area, located between Ottawa and Algonquin Provincial Park, where she has lived for 35 years.
There, she bagan spinning natural fibers and weaving tapestries inspired by the rugged landscape of the Madawaska Hills. She also worked in stained glass and pastel before taking up oil painting. The first two shows she entered won best of show and honourable mention.
Kathy grew up surrounded by the art of her father, Arctic artist Maurice Haycock and his close painting partner of 30 years, A. Y. Jackson. Largely self taught, she cites them as her major influences. Early Arctic trips with her father introduced her to the lure of the North and inspired a sweeping and graceful rhythm in her work. Doris McCarthy praised the energetic motion and fresh expressive brushwork in her work during painting trips together in the Arctic and at McCarthy's cottage on Georgian Bay.
Inspired by the immediate and exuberant experience of painting from within the landscape, Kathy is dedicated to working outside in all seasons. Her wood panels are painted on site in vivo, or in the living landscape. Her gently rhythmic style and dynamic brushwork communicate an unabashed delight in painting the experience of being there. Her lively paintings of Algonquin Park wilderness, rural Ontario farming country, the Canadian Arctic and the American Southwest are animated with weather, wind, light rhythmic movement and sensuous forms stated with an earthy palette. She celebrates the natural world, drawing attention to the vast power yet delicate fragility of nature's often overlooked and underappreciated natural places and habitat.
Kathy's work is represented in private, public and corporate collections from the Yukon to Newfoundland, and in the USA, Europe, China and Australia.
History
- 1998-present: painter: oil and acrylic
- 1980-98: family business - log construction; painter: pastel; stained glass
- 1973-1985: weaver: tapestries
Workshops attended
- Charles Spratt acrylic, 2005
- Lucy Manley -- oil, 2003, 2008
- Dennis Cliff, Haliburton School of Art, 1999
Exhibitions, Shows, Festivals (selected)
- 2009 Art Gallery of Northumberland, Coburg
- 2008 University of Alaska, Museum of the North (Fairbanks)
- 2008 Westmount Gallery, Toronto
- 2008 Agnes Jamieson Gallery, Minden Wild Women
- 2008 Art Gallery of Bancroft, Bancroft Ontario
- 2008 Markham Theatre, Markham Ontario
- 2007-08 Cube Gallery, Ottawa
- 2007 Ottawa Symphony Orchestra Charity Auction, Chateau Laurier, Ottawa
- 2007 McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinberg
- 2007 Wilno Station Gallery (Red Canoe Café), Wilno Ontario Wild Women
- 2007 Legislative Assembly, Iqaluit Nunavut
- 2007, 08 Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife NWT
- 2007 Barber Gallery, Guelph
- 2007 Leighton Art Centre, Calgary
- 2007-08 J. D. Carrier Art Gallery, Toronto
- 2006-07 Vancouver Maritime Museum, Vancouver (Permanent collection)
- 2006 Gallery on the Grand, Waterloo Ontario
- 2006-09 Eclipse Gallery, Deerhurst Resort, Huntsville Ontario Wild Women
- 2006 Linkway Gallery, TD Centre, Toronto
- 2006 Win Henstock Gallery, Oakville
- 2006, 07 Arts and Letters Club, Toronto (Sotheby's Auction, 2006)
- 2005-09 Wilno Station Gallery Wilno Ontario
- 2005-08 The Gallery at The Club at Bond Head, Bond Head Ontario
- 2004-08 Bittersweet Gallery, Burnstown
- 2000-07 South of 60 Arts Centre, Barry's Bay Ontario
- 2003-08 Algonquin Park Visitor Centre, Algonquin Park
- 2000-08 Madawaska Valley Studio Tour
- 1974-76, 2005 Ottawa Tulip Festival
- 2004 Cedar Ridge Gallery, Arctic Landscapes, Toronto
- 2003-04 Visual Arts Centre, Orleans (VACO)
- 2001-04 Wilno Garden Gallery, Wilno
- 2003 Britannia Gallery, Algonquin Trails, Ottawa
- 2001, 06-08 Old Chelsea Gallery, Chelsea Quebec
- 2000 City Hall, Barrie
- 2000 Ontario Lung Association Auction
- 1973-81 Robertson Gallery, Ottawa
- 1974-81 Ottawa Christmas Craft Show
Lectures, Demonstrations
- 2003 History of Painting in the Arctic slide presentation, South of 60 Arts Centre
- 2003 Painting from Nature demonstration South of 60 Arts Centre
- 2002, 2006 History and Inspiration in the Arctic Landscape slide presentation, at sea
on the Akademik Ioffe, Davis Strait/ Baffin Bay
Memberships
- Society of Canadian Artists (Elected)
- Artists for Conservation (invited)
- Arctic Quest (Co-founder)
- Polar Artists Group (Founding Board of Directors)
- Madawaska Valley Arts Council
- East Central Ontario Art Association (Algonquin Park Show coordinator)
- Plien Air Ensemble
- Ottawa Valley Art League
- Visual Arts Ontario
- Wild Women, Wilderness Painters
In Publication
- Madawaska Valley Tourist Brochure, 2003
- Rural Women's Book of Days, 2005
- Country Connection, # 54 Summer 2007: Wild Women, Wilderness Painters On Location
Updated: 01-15-2011
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