KATHERINE MEYER

Katherine earned a BFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where she spent most of her time experimenting with oil painting. But she found her true passion with a pad of paper, some charcoal, and an eraser, and started composing drawings from nature. Katherine’s full-time job was writing software for highway construction projects, but most of her vacations were spent at artist colonies, pursuing her work with charcoal. When she realized her heart was in her art and not a computer, she quit her job and art became her full-time career, which blossomed when she was taken on by the prestigious Virginia Lynch Gallery in Rhode Island. She began to show there and in juried shows throughout New England. After moving to California, she was offered solo and group exhibitions at art museums and colleges. In New Mexico, Katherine continues her work in charcoal, and she never tires of the high desert, both as natural environment and as subject matter for her drawings.

She also earned an MA from the School for International Training, which helped a lot when she was teaching English in Korea and in a refugee camp on the Thai/Burma border. But that’s another story.