Artist Bio

Katherine has always been a maker. She began her creative life with flowers as a floral designer and dabbled in basket weaving, ceramics and pottery, and fiber crafts.

Katherine creates wire sculpture designed to draw attention to form, light, and shadow. The shapes invite exploration of texture and depth. She is inspired by the the curves, dips, distances or closeness, of the landscapes that surround the Pacific Northwest. Her work is also influenced by natural elements like the power of the wind, the pathways of rain, or the detours tree roots take along the forest floor. Each sculpture inspires the next.

She has been looping wire since 2007 when she learned the technique in a workshop during a show of Ruth Asawa’s art at the Japanese American Museum in Los Angeles. Commissions dominated her art making for many years and she is always happy to create based on an art lover’s specs. However, vital to her creative nature, is welcoming imperfection and to remain open to learning, communicating, and contributing as an art maker.

In recent years, Katherine followed a desire to incorporate natural fibers into her sculptures. This has led to concentrated efforts to learn the many aspects of basketry art. She is learning and practicing weaving with willow, tree bark including cedar, willow, and maple. As she discovers which fibers weave well, she is experimenting with  day lily, iris, and daffodil leaves, dandelion stems, and honeysuckle vine - all of which she intentionally grows in her gardens (except for the dandelions).

Katherine works out of her backyard studio in Tacoma, WAsurrounded by ever evolving flower gardens with her sweet canine companion, Olive, a Catahoula/Chesapeake mix by her side, and of course two cats in the yard.