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Mary Katherine

E-Mail: marykay.feit@gmail.com
Website: web.mac.com/mfeit/Mary_Katherine/home.html

My name is Mary Katherine Feit; I sign my paintings Mary Katherine. I have lived throughout California from LA to the San Joaquin Valley to the Livermore Valley at present. I lived and played with the grape vines and related industry as a child in the Valley and as an adult. Nature continues to attract me. I worked with oils briefly, but have focused on acrylic and watercolors in the past 25 years. My feelings are better expressed through my paintings than my words.

I graduated from Cal. State. Univ. at Fresno, taught art in Fresno and Bakersfield. I studied under Ralph Holman, Joyce Aiken, Judy Chicago and Charles Gaines. In 1987 I started Mary Katherine Designs, hand painting with fabric dyes and paints a line of scarves, large draping - one of a kind paintings to complement the clothing of Isabel Bardeau, a French designer. In two years, I produced 200 dozen silk scarves to color match a line of solid colored clothing.

While raising three children, I taught painting at Lori Brock Children's Museum in Bakersfield, provided consulting for interior designs in homes and businesses. I have traveled to art centers at Dresden, Meissen, Berlin, Prague, Florence, Rome, Venice, Paris Marseilles, Aix en Provence and Calcutta. My work has been represented in commercial buildings, residences and the LA Design Center.

I have had a life long dream of creating a life focused on artistic expression more than teaching or writing about it; putting life through the dance of the pigments on canvas or any other medium. A resident of Livermore the past four years, I am now starting to engage, participate in and share with the local art community. In the 2009 LAA Spring Art show, my "The Last Row" was awarded Best Oil/Acrylic in show.

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