Kate Dwyer
Oil on Glass

Demonstration

I do complex and unique paintings working on both sides of plexiglas and glass.   Part of the process that I demonstrate involves working over a mirror so that I can see the front side as I paint the reverse side.  Other works to be displayed and for sale include collaged paper on plexi and, for the first time, Batiks.   My studio is located in a lovely and whimsical garden behind my home.  I am represented by Williams Gallery in Port Townsend and Seattle Art Museum Rental gallery.

1231 32nd Street
Port Townsend, WA 98368
360-385-3345
Kdwyer@olympus.net
www.katedwyer.net

By appointment during rest of year.

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.

Directions

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.

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#10