KATHLEEN HOWARD PIPER
2230 Garfield Street, Eugene Oregon 97405
phone: (541) 302.6418
e-mail: pyrokath@gmail.com

As an artist, my subjects are primarily landscapes, plants, and human beings. I find form a wonderful metaphor for consciousness, and I’m intrigued by the thought that art trends in the last century parallel dialogues in physics based on the views of Albert Einstein and Nils Bohr. I dance along the continuum from photorealistic to abstract, and along the axis from devotional to surreal. In general, I seek to be as direct an expression of nature as possible, recognizing all beings as part of it, and using planet-friendly materials and processes wherever that is compatible with creating work of archival quality. My esthetic passions are centered on color, emotion, and the edges between the real and the unreal, the expected and the unexpected. Since changing appearances and shifting points of view are integral to the meaning of my work, I turn to glass and mixed media frequently as vital means of expression. Yet I always return home, to painting on canvas with oils. I have been showing and selling my work regularly since 1968.