Kathryn Holt

Welcome to my new website! Browse around and scroll through images. If you have questions or thoughts about the work, text or email me. I enjoy sharing my work and would be happy to hear from you.

I’ve been a producing and exhibiting artist for many years, holding a BA and MFA. I was a full time art faculty member at a college. I loved teaching and have taken great pleasure in seeing my students’ success.

I have  maintained my own studio practice  since 1984. I’ve also held residencies on four continents and cherished the time spent and friends made. My work has evolved continuously over time; that’s what keeps me going, keeps me excited, and keeps me happy.

I’ve worked in various media. Clay tiles and murals, and large paintings on canvas. On paper with watercolors, ink, paint, pastels, colored pencil—I choose whatever medium I need for the image I want to make, occasionally all of them on a single piece.

At times I work with realism, other times there are no recognizable objects, people, or places at all. 

Thirteen years ago, I bought my first iPad and soon after, I was deep into what I could make digitally. Sometimes the subject drives my work sometimes it’s the tools and materials.

I try to be very aware of the places and things surrounding me. Big things like architecture, landscapes, planets; objects as small as microbes, or as simple as a morning cup of coffee. The extraordinary and the mundane. Glimpses of things out of the corner of my eye, or those I’ve gazed at in meditation.  

 I’ve traveled widely and lived in cultures very different than my own, soaking up imagery and ideas with every new experience.

While I love Matisse and Marcel Duchamp, I’m intrigued by Julie Mehretu‘s nonobjective paintings and the rich installations by El Anatsui.