KATHY PANTELE

ARTIST STATEMENT

After graduation from Meredith College, I began my career in the early 90’s as a portrait artist painting primarily in oils and won several awards for my work. However, I have now immersed myself into the exciting world of intuitive abstract paintings, which has given me a fabulous avenue to express my creativity in a brand new way!

​Although my first love shall always be the exquisite torture of realism, I have enjoyed critical success in the “intuitive” abstract genre, in which emotion, color, shape, line, and loose form play a pivotal role. My abstract paintings are done primarily in acrylic overlaid with various mixed media. I have developed a signature style that has been described by one critic as “pure, intense, bold, and intuitive…I find myself being drawn to her paintings which invoke a happy, joyous, response”.