Multi-faceted artist, KATHY ARMSTRONG, will give a watercolor art demonstration at the January 28, 2020 meeting of the Irondequoit Art Club to be held 7:30 PM at Chapel Oaks, St. Ann’s Community, 1550 Portland Ave., Rochester, NY 14621, after the club’s 7 PM business meeting. (Enter St. Ann’s Campus and bear left following signs to the main entrance of Chapel Oaks.) There is no charge for this event and the site is accessible to all.
Kathy grew up in upstate NY, but after getting a degree in Visual Arts in Pittsburgh, spent most of her adult life working as a graphic designer in Wisconsin. She met her husband and they raised their family while working together in their own communications firm in Madison (with a few years in Colorado). In the early years Kathy dabbled in fine art when she could find the time, but after having their second child and taking a break from design, she tried painting in watercolor and found she really loved it. Kathy is primarily self-taught in that medium, although a few years later she learned much from Colorado artist, Julia Jordan. After a decade or so painting exclusively in watercolor, Kathy took up acrylic and oil painting as well. She began painting en plein air a few years ago and enjoys painting out in the beauty of the Finger Lakes area, although she thinks of herself as primarily a studio artist. “Light touches the world and immediately brings it to life. It shapes and forms everything in its path. Trying to capture that light, whether intense or subtle, is the driving force behind my love of creating art.” Kathy shows her work regionally and nationally and has been represented by galleries in the Midwest as well as New York State. Last summer she won the Alice E. Koret Award for her watercolor, “Fresh Squeezed OJ,” at the MAG’s Finger Lakes Exhibit. Kathy teaches watercolor classes at various locations. She and ten other regional artists have just opened Pittsford Fine Art at 4 N. Main Street in Pittsford. She and her husband currently live in Rochester. She can be contacted at phone, 608-445-2241; email, [email protected]; website, www.kathyarmstrongfineart.com
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