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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Kathleen’s passion is to affirm life in all its challenges and glory. From this place, she is moved to live into exploration of herself, her humanity and her way of belonging in the world. Showing up for her life moment to moment, heart, belly and soul … in spirit, her work emerges.
Moved by the preciousness of this journey we call life, Kathleen taps deeply into creative resources, weaving elemental and heavenly sources to create. Her work reminds us of the reverence of life, the holding, the connecting. Kathleen’s pieces are contributions, dedicated to evoking and remembering deep truths and flashes of inspiration. Her images allow us to see the world she reveres, a world that brings into focus the potential we are, our human experience expressed.
Tapping into the primordial essence of the clay of the earth through the hands of the artist … ancient echoes and present feelings resound, allowing the creative to course through.
"In the midst of what we are doing here, with ourselves, with others, as an individual or with the collective … there exists within us a ground of being, real, deep, creative reserves and intelligence. It just is." –K Pouls
“Because we are creations, it is our responsibility to create” –Oomoto
-THOUGHTS ON THE CREATIVE PROCESS & SACRED ART
Kathleen says, “Perhaps my work creates symbols and visuals that move, empower and imbue viewers with respect and compassion for each other, for Mother Nature, and for this divine experience called life.
There are no beginnings and no endings. The benevolent, unfolding universe and its process lives within me, everyone and all things. Energy is subtle and powerful and continually circulating through me. It is open, free moving, unburdened, basically indefinable. It is life force unforced, which then becomes dynamic and powerful.
When I move with this dynamism, something happens. I approach this process as if I just don’t know what will happen next.
I like to get to the place I call flow or flowing, when I am merely participating in what is arising within me as well as in front of me. This place is freedom, without self-consciousness; it is perfectly natural.”
"I know artists whose medium is life itself; and who express the inexpressible without brush, pencil, chisel or guitar. They neither paint nor dance. Their medium is Being. Whatever their hand touches has increased life...they are the artists of being alive." –Frederick Frank
Curriculum Vitae
I have leaned toward and into the creative process for as long as I can remember, inspired and influenced by many individuals, cultures and nature. Living in Santa Cruz since 1968, I have developed my expression as a self-made artist.
2006-current Creative Process Clay Journey Classes; Clay Creation Studio
2006-07 Art as a Spiritual Practice; Clay Creation Studio
2006 Clay Journey; Big Sur Mystery School
2006 Creative Process with Clay; Social Venture Network Women’s Retreat
Educational Influences
After years of artistic exploration, I have immersed myself in Traditional Chinese Medicine since 1984, emerging with an enriched sense of myself as an artist. Blending this collective experience, I create and go forward.
1989-current Creative Process with Coeleen Kiebert & visiting teachers
2008-current Mattie Leeds, “Going Big” Sculptures
2005 Clay Mama, Advanced Lidded Vessels & Plates; Santa Cruz
2002 3-week intensive, Traditional Arts of Japan; Oomoto, Kameoka, Kyoto
2001-current Clay Creations, John Brown’s Studio; Santa Cruz
2001 Art as a Spritual Practice with Coeleen Kiebert; Santa Cruz
2002-04 Diamond Heart Art Group
1999 3-week intensive study of various Japanese Traditional Arts, specifically ceramics; Kyoto, Japan
1997 Ceramics in America; UCSC Extension
1998 Clay As A Way; UCSC
1994 Glass Works Seminar with Dianna Hobson
1989-91 Working 2-D, Water Reflection and Life with Kitty Wallis (charcoal pastel drawing and watercolor)
1988-92 Sumi Painting and Calligraphy with Mayumi Genest
1972-73 Ceramic classes; UCSC
Exhibits
2009 Leeds Gallery, Santa Cruz CA
2008 Felix Culpa Gallery, Santa Cruz
2007 Santa Cruz Art League “Essence Show”
2006 Louden Nelson Community Art Show, Santa Cruz
2006 Santa Cruz Art League “Essence Show”
2006 Marion Woodman/Seminar, San Francisco
2004 Art for Change-South Bay Artists for Kerry Auction
2003 A.H. Almaas/E.J. Gold Hei-Art Auction
2002-07 Legacy Gallery, Boston, Mass.
2001-07 Art & Antiques Eclectic Gallery, Boston, ongoing
2001 Cabrillo Music, Art and Wine Festival, Aptos CA
2001-07 Private Showings and Sales
1999 Art in the Park, Ojai CA
1999 Private Showings and Sales
1998 Open Studio, Santa Cruz, Private Showings and Sales
1997 Open Studio, Santa Cruz, Private Showings and Sales
1997 8th Annual Studio Showing, Kiebert Studio, Aptos
1995 Seventh Annual Studio Showing, Kiebert Studio, Aptos
1994 Sixth Annual Studio Showing, Kiebert Studio, Aptos
1994 Art League Member Show, Santa Cruz
1993 Fifth Annual Studio Showing, Kiebert Studio, Aptos
1993 New Women's Art Gallery, Santa Cruz
1988 Office of Raven Lang, OMD (Sumi Paintings)
1986-07 Community Care Center, Santa Cruz
Capitola Book Café, Capitola CA
Seafood Mama's Restaurant, Capitola
Longhi's Restaurant, Bar and Dance, Maui HI
Pontiac Grill, Santa Cruz
