Kathleen Kolb - November, 2019
“My residency at Surf Point gave me solid, expansive, productive, creative time in an elemental setting that grounded the work. The other residents enriched my experience, broadening my mind, and my network. In three short weeks I came away with finished work for exhibition, and new peers I look forward to maintaining connections with.”
Kathleen Kolb is interested in the action and meaning of visual light on everyday surroundings and in the intersection of emotional experience with what we see. As a painter, her work is based in observation. The primary theme in all her work is light. In addition to light, her work is about attachment and place. She is drawn to rural landscape and to the formal qualities of the geometry of traditional New England architecture, looking for inspiration in rural landscape, wilderness, and small town New England. Her aim is to evoke a time and place in our shared world, and a corresponding emotional experience. Her method is to spend time paying acute attention. She searches out subjects that are visually arresting and that evoke riveting emotional energy.
Back Steps - 2012
More of her work can be seen at www.kathleenkolb.com.