Art and Flowers
Pittsford Fine Art
4 N Main St.
Jun 6, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Kathleen Warren turned to painting twenty years ago after full time employment in a corporation for twenty-six years, working primarily in a Marketing capacity. She paints in oil and watercolors. Kathleen believes her artistic endeavors enhance her own life as it can do it for others. Paintings provide daily enjoyment in a person’s surroundings.

As Claude Monet said, “I perhaps owe becoming a painter to flowers.” Kathleen’s initial creative endeavors, while employed full time, focused on flower arranging. Flowers remain a passion and her favorite painting subject. She likes to capture light and shadows, while depicting the bold and beautiful colors of flowers and leaves as sunlight provides highlights, or passes through or behind. Her product is what she wants an observer to see. She calls it “impressionistic realism.”

Her goal is to create lasting beauty from what appeals to her own esthetic, including still life designed by herself, landscapes or waterscapes views, bird captures, plant life, or architecture. Helen Van Wick has written, “An artist’s real contribution is the expression of his (or her) own reaction to the world around him.” Almost every day an artist finds new subjects that could become paintings.

Kathleen’s primary influencers include Judy Soprano, Pat Rohrer, George Van Hook, Mary Whyte, Kyle Stuckey, Kelli Folsom, and Elizabeth Robbins. Her favorite artist is Richard Schmidt.

Kathleen’s education includes a BA from Elmira College, and an MBA from the University of Rochester. Her education as an artist had been developed primarily through in-person and online workshops in the Rochester and Charleston, NC areas.