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 Kathleen Hollett www.kathleenhollett.com
I’ve always had an eye for oil painting so I started an evening art class ten years ago at the Cabell County Career Technology Center to hone in on my painting skills. Under the direction of Andhi Surya, I developed my oil painting technique using painters' knives. I love painting with knives, wet on wet, and the impressionistic effect of my oil paintings. For the past several years I’ve also been working with pastels and finding it to be a nice distraction from my main love of oil painting.
I am President of the Tri-State Arts Association and Membership Chairperson for the Tri-State Arts Association for the past four years. I’m a member of the Allied Artists in Charleston, WV and a member of the Ironton Artists Association in Ironton, OH.
Since July 2005 I’ve devoted my career as a full-time professional artist. In 2008 I became a member of the Mac Worthington Art Gallery at 749 North High Street in Columbus, Ohio. In 2007 I was juried into the Fine Arts Gallery at Tamarack in Beckley, WV. My artwork is also displayed at Classic Interiors, 611 Fourteenth Street West in Huntington. During the past couple of years, I have displayed my artwork at the annual Visual Arts of FestivALL at the Clay Center, Charleston, WV June. I will participate in the Annual Art-in-the-Park at Huntington’s Ritter Park in June and October. Since 2001, I have displayed artwork at the annual July Art Walk in Lancaster, Ohio.
In May of 2006 I completed a plein air workshop with William Scott Jennings in Sedona, AZ. Mr. Jennings is a Master Signature Member of the Oil Painters of America and a Signature Member of the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association and the Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters. I received a grant from the Ohio River Borders Initiative Program to attend this art training.
In August 2008, 2004 and 2002 I had oil paintings accepted at the Huntington Museum of Art during a juried show for the Tri-State Arts Association. I have also displayed artistry and won several awards through competitive art exhibitions at the Parkersburg Art Guild, Cardinal Valley Art Gallery Show, Kentucky Art Guild Show, the Grayson Kentucky Art Show, the Greenbo Kentucky Art Show, the Moorehead Kentucky Arts Show, the Ironton, Ohio Art Show and the Carter Caves Art Show.
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