"Bringing the Museum to You"

By permission of the artist, The Cyber Art Show is pleased to feature the first of two

12-piece Exhibitions of works by American contemporary Impressionist painter Kathryn Stats (born 1944 in Pocatello, Idaho).

 

Kathryn has developed a keen eye for the landscape and nature.  She wandered the Utah countryside on her horse until her early twenties.

She studied with artists in the Salt Lake City area on a continuous basis for approximately 20 years and continues to study books on color and landscape painting including Plein Air California Painters, Taos painters, Carlson’s Guide to Landscape painting and the Russian masters, favoring Vasily Polenov.

She also continues to be influenced by other gifted artists including Edgar Payne, Clyde Aspevig, Scott Christensen, Hanson Puthuff, James Reynolds, Matt Smith and Ray Roberts.

Kathryn started out by painting familiar rural landscapes of her childhood, but curious about new subject matter, she began to make road trips to Southern Utah, becoming more and more enthralled with the powerful red rock formations.

Her work is very much her own, not really echoing the styles of any of the painters with whom she has studied.  Although her red rock paintings remain among her most-coveted compositions, collectors seem to respond positively to any subject she paints.

She has traveled to and painted the coastal areas of California and Oregon as well as locations in Alaska, Russia, Spain, Italy, France and Portugal. 

 

From Wyoming to Utah to Arizona, Kathryn has garnered numerous awards for her exhibitions in the past 15 years. Her work has appeared in publications such as Plein Air Magazine, Art of the West, Fine Art Connoisseur, American Art Collector and Southwest Art.

 

Kathryn is a Charter member of Plein Air Painters of Utah and One of the Hundred “Most Honored Artists of Utah” by Springville Museum of Art.