Artist Profile

Nubble Lighthouse
10x20”

I’m Dreaming
11x14”

Taking Flight
12x24”

Summer Bloom
12x12”

I came to painting relatively late in the game. A doodler as a kid, I played with watercolor but when I tried oil painting in my thirties it was love at first brushstroke. At the time I was a small business owner with limited time to paint, but since my “rewirement” I am in the studio daily. I am drawn to the heart of things: Beauty. Courage. Compassion. I look for scenes that pull me and bring the inspiration back to the studio where I develop the composition I think with best transform my emotional response into a visual image. I am moved by champions of the heart who find their strength in love and use their power to lift others up.

Whether working abstractly or representationally, my search is always for this emotional resonance. At the same time, my engineering background compels me to unravel the rules and science of color and composition. And it is that dance back and forth between head and heart that fascinates me. I find inspiration in New England landscapes, particularly the peace and beauty of open spaces. I love the heart connection many of us have for the land and the tales these scenes have to tell us: stories of a history much longer than ours and a future much more patient. I find peace in vistas of earth, sky, and sea, existing in perfect equilibrium without our interference as well as pictures of us as a part of the landscape, connected and communal.

I am grateful to able to contribute 50% of my proceeds to organizations doing good things in the world. I am blessed to have my studio attached to the house, so I can pop into the kitchen for a tea break with my husband and back out to where my art and the dogs lie patiently waiting ....

Exhibitions, Acknowledgements  2024 – Scale of Wonder Exhibition (Duo Show) at Gallery On the Green 2024 – Hill-Stead Modern Monet (Group Show) 2023 – Monastery Gallery Of Art (Group Show) Only Say the Word 2023 – Artist in Residence – Adirondack Interpretive Center, ESF 2023 – Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts membership 2022 – Canton Artist Guild juried membership 2022 – Connecticut Women Artists juried membership 2022 – Lost Acres Vineyard (Solo Show) Granby, CT 2021 – CT+6 (Juried Show) West Hartford, CT ? 2020 – West Hartford Art League (Juried Membership Show) West Hartford, CT 2019 – Studio Borgo (Artist Residency) Borgo A Mozzano, Italy Arts Education

Though unencumbered by formal arts training ;>) I cannot claim to be self-taught as I have enjoyed the tutelage of many fine professional artists and teachers through innumerable classes and workshops. I have also spent more in depth and one on one time with several contemporary luminaries to whom I will be forever grateful including John MacDonald, Dianne Mize, Frank Federico and Daniel Greene among others.

Tour Location: ArtSpace Hartford

Website: KateEmery.com

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