katherine symancyk

Artist Statement

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY


Katherine enjoys working in a variety of media. Sometimes she creates

unusual art from commonplace items like tea bags and egg shells or instead she

may choose to continue the craft started by lightship sailors and weave

Nantucket baskets. Light ships were the predecessors to light houses so the

sailors had long days with plenty of time to weave. Katherine follows their

traditions and enjoys countless hours getting each painstaking detail precise.

While raising chickens, Katherine wound up with many egg shells.

Instead of composting the shell fragments she decided to paint designs and

colors on them with watercolors and alcohol inks and then mounts them in

frames. The random shapes, patterns, colors and again attention to detail show

her great imagination as each piece lets the viewer share a bit of her insight in a

shell.

Katherine shows us that used tea bags are a perfect canvas for her many

fun-filled caricatures and scenes done with water colors and gouaches. After the

used bags are dried and opened they are the perfect size for small paintings or cards