Bio/Contact

My son, Joe, and me

Katie Wilson received her degree in fine art at the University of NH and worked as a graphic designer for a number of years while she continued her studies in painting.

Her mixed media paintings have an abstract quality which is partly achieved by her bold brushwork that retains a certain softness and through the collage lending itself to make abstract passages in the paintings. Katie’s choice of palette tends to give her work an atmospheric and serene feel. Her figurative work and soulful portraits blending the old with the new may hint at some emotional tension and have been described as solemn, wistful and haunting.

“Working with collage pushes me to be more innovative. It allows me to put down color, pattern and texture where I wouldn't have otherwise with any other medium. I am intrigued by the imagined drama or peace of a past moment. My desire is to translate that moment through my own interpretation of the subject’s inner person by creating the drama and mood with color, texture and facial expression.”

Katie started showing her work in 2011 in the northeast and 2012 on west coast Florida. She has received awards for her mixed media work and was one of those featured to represent one of the top ranking Fine Art and Design Shows in the New York Metropolitan area. She tries to paint full time in her studio in Rockport, ME and displays her work in Beech Hill Gallery located on Route 1 in Rockport.


2016
- Zephyr Gallery, Group Show, Salem MA
      Portrait Show - March  ~  Landscape Show - April

2015

- Stone Voices - an art quarterly magazine, featured as one of three painters in the summer edition

- Zoot, Camden. ME
     Solo Show
- Carver Hill Gallery, Rockland, ME
     Group Portrait Show

2014
- Carver Hill Gallery, Rockland, ME
     Group Portrait Show

2013
- Saco Sidewalk Art Festival, Saco. ME
     Best of Show
     Best Mixed Media
- Sanibel Arts and Crafts Fair, Sanibel, FL
     First Place - Two Dimensional Art
- Ft. Myers Art Festival, Ft. Myers, FL
     First Place - Two Dimensional Art

2012
- Saco Sidewalk Art Festival, Saco. ME
      Judges Choice Overall

2011
 - SoNo Arts Celebration, South Norwalk, CT
     Third Place
- Saco Sidewalk Art Festival, Saco. ME
      Best Mixed Media

2001
 - NH Institute of Art, Student Exhibit, Manchester, NH
     First Place - Pastel

1993
 - Sharon Arts Gallery, Peterborough, NH
     First Place - Prints

Contact:

364 Commercial Street, Rockport, ME

603-533-3757          kwilsonpaint@gmail.com

My work can be viewed at my studio/gallery at 
364 Commercial St. (Route 1)  by chance or appointment.