Kat was born in Kansas City, MO. At the age of 10, her family moved to San Carlos, CA. She has lived in many areas in Northern California, and on the North Shore of Oahu HI. She currently resides in Hollister, CA and works from her newly built home studio.
As a child, Kat dreamed of becoming a high fashion designer, as her father worked for Vogue Fashion Marketing in NY. There was never a shortage of fashion catalogues around the house to inspire her. She spent countless hours making drawings of the models, lost in her dreams of greatness! She continued her art-making throughout her school years, falling in love with line and form. Kat resumed her education in her mid-20’s, studying art history, painting, sculpting, and design at a local college, as she raised her young family of 2 boys.
Kat worked in the Silicon Valley electronics industry for many years as a silkscreener, and later as a Quality Director. Throughout her life, Kat continued to paint, sculpt, and draw. For a number of years, she had a small business at home printing her original pen & ink drawings on glass and shirts. After a few years away from art making, she began painting again in 2009, and has not stopped creating since.
Kat's award winning work is collected worldwide. Although she has explored abstract expressionism in various mediums, she has settled down to oil painting in the contemporary realism style. It is here that she feels she can truly express herself, and that her genuine voice is most clearly heard. In her words, "With each piece, there is always some extent of self-discovery and healing that occurs. These passages are naturally infused into my art, and I believe they speak to the viewer. My most sincere desire is to, in some way, enrich other people's lives with my work."