Kate Dwyer
1231 32nd Street
Port Townsend, Washington 98368
360.385.3345
kdwyer@olympus.net
www.katedwyerart.com
Oil on Glass
Demonstration:
Kate is a garden designer as well as painter. Her charming artist-built studio is set in a lush garden full of whimsy—no wonder many visitors think they’ve accidentally wandered into the Secret Garden tour instead of the Studio Tour! Kate will have demonstration materials set up to explain her complicated reverse painting process on plexiglass and glass. Items for sale will include small paintings not available in galleries, new works, seconds and batiks. Kate is represented by Seattle Art Museum Sales Gallery and Williams Gallery in Port Townsend, among others. www.katedwyerart.com
Directions to studio:
Take Sheridan Avenue north to 32nd street. Turn left. It’s the second house on the left — 1231 32nd street. The Castle Hill bus stops two houses from my place.
Artist statement:
I am a self-taught artist, led to painting from garden making; led to glass initially by its luminosity; lured to stay by the processes I discovered there. Like Wolf Kahn, a painter I greatly admire, “I don’t have ideas; I have appetites.”
Those appetites come first from nature; the rest from tasting the works of many people, places and times in all manner of materials. Having lived with gusto and traveled widely in the world and in books, I can no longer tell which influences are the strongest.
To being a painting is like beginning a good journey. Bring all that you know and let the trip take you.