Inspiration
A self-proclaimed adventurer at heart, Mary Kathryn translates her experiences and great appreciation of the natural world - flowers, trees, birds, mountains, and especially, the water, into paintings. Embracing color and light, she strives to creatively capture the emotion of these elements and apply them on canvas.
Bio
Mary Kathryn Holden Woodward is a contemporary visual artist living in Richmond, Virginia. Her work focuses primarily on abstracts, flowers, and landscapes, with the occasional figurative piece. Mary Kathryn creates her paintings most often with a palette knife and brush, combining a variety of media such as oil, gold leaf, acrylics, and charcoal. She develops a delicate contrast of vibrant, saturated colors, often in many layers and with a variety of textures. Through her rich color palette Mary Kathryn attempts to bring her paintings a joyful voice that is both appealing and reflective of how she experiences life. After stints in Paris and New York City, Mary Kathryn has taken those bits of urban exposure and coupled it with her love of the pastoral South.