Kate M Kennedy - Fine Art
Kate Kennedy is an American Painter, who loves a bit of drama on the canvas.
Now at Marker 21 Art Gallery, Port Salerno Florida
"The Art Critics"
A sneak peek at new exhibit with a dash of giggle-ingredient coming in 2021.
Kate's Medium
Kate’s favorite medium is oil paint. She creates unique and beautiful tones and hues by starting with a translucent under painting of ink or oil paint washes, and then adding layers of oil glazes to bring out subtle color changes. To tie it all together she uses a combination of direct, reflected and translucent light. The result is dramatic and powerful.
“Daydreams have always taken me to mysterious places. When I pick up a brush to paint, my dream world connects to the physical world, and a mysterious force takes my brush and I to a place where all things are possible.”
Kate's Inspiration
Kate’s New Renaissance Impressionist style is fresh, and adventurous. She loves brash individualism, color, contrasts, and drama. Kate has always been inspired to express appreciation and gratitude for life through nature’s physical beauty and spiritual vibration.
Her influences are broad, from the classic masters such as Michelangelo loves his powerful, inspired projects reflecting the human body as the ultimate vehicle for emotional expression. American impressionists John Singer Sargent, and his Edwardian era luxury portraits are another inspiring favorite.
Georgia O'Keefe's oversized flowers, and Frits Thaulow's impressionist water scenes inspire her color combinations, and rhythmic brush work.
Artist-Author-Adventure Seeker
Flowers & Gardens
Creatures Tall & Small
Flowers & Gardens
Visual heaven for Kate has always been nature in her many forms, and of course, brilliant flower gardens are a favorite source of drama. As an Artist, she is driven to paint them all!
In every oil painting the elements of earth, wind, fire, and water are all peacefully blended. Kate see's the the fire in color, the wind patterns in leaves, and water currents flow through all her oil paintings.
Landscape Seasons
Creatures Tall & Small
Flowers & Gardens
Kate's Rhythmic Impressionism style of oil painting is a meld of brush strokes that follow natures rhythms and vibrations which evoke a spiritual connection with the world. Sometimes she uses bold and vibrant brush strokes when she paints. Other times natures rhythm's call her to be subtle, and weave in more intricate brush strokes. All are designed to entice you to lean in for a closer view of her art.
Creatures Tall & Small
Creatures Tall & Small
Portraits and Interiors New Paintings
Kate finds all creatures amazing and often they provide an added giggle ingredient, or a bit of whimsey. Like all her work, the rhythms of nature influence her brush strokes, be it fur or feather, you will find all the textures of nature here.
Portraits and Interiors New Paintings
Events - 2019 Shows Exhibits & Festivals
Portraits and Interiors New Paintings
Kate paints her daydreams every day, Her dreams swirl and flow like currents in water, and breezes across open fields. They lead your eyes in a meandering journey around the canvas, only to pause in the pools of color. the brush strokes that follow the intricacies of natures rhythms. In every garden I see earth, wind, fire, and water. Everything springs from the earth, the fire in the colors, the swirls of wind and currents of water all combine in each of my oil paintings.
New Book Series!
Events - 2019 Shows Exhibits & Festivals
Events - 2019 Shows Exhibits & Festivals
– What happens when fun turns to fright? When does boldness become true bravery? Author K. M. Kennedy answers these questions in the release of The Sound Prince and the Pocket Dragon, her first book in the middle grade fantasy adventure series Sound Prince.
Events - 2019 Shows Exhibits & Festivals
Events - 2019 Shows Exhibits & Festivals
Events - 2019 Shows Exhibits & Festivals
Marker 23 Gallery
Solo Show “The Art Critics”
Port Salerno, Florida
December 5th 2019 - January 6th 2020
Edward Williams Gallery at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck NJ
December 2019
Lords and Andras Gallery, NY “Big Action in Small Spaces“
November 6th to November 30th 2019
Sausalito Art Festival
August 31st to September 2nd 2019
BAM- Bellevue Art Museum Juried Arts
July 24th, 25th, & 26th 2019
Piccolo Spoleto Art Exhibit
May 24th - June 9th 2019
Marion Square, Charleston, SC
National Association of Women Artists - SC Chapter. Transparency & Light, University of South Carolina Center for the Arts Beaufort, SC April 4th - April 30th, 2019
Coconut Grove Festival - Miami
Feb 16-18 2019 Art Exhibition
BAM - Bellevue Art Museum
Juried Arts Festival 2018
Representation
Kate Kennedy Studio's,
Folly Beach, SC and Coeur d’Alene, ID
Marker 23 Gallery, Port Salerno, FL
Smith & Vallee Gallery, Bow, WA