IG: @kat.co.art

My World In Moments: The Beings That Make My World, And How I Hold Them.

My artistic practice helps me navigate all the different relationships within my life: my relationship with nature, my loved ones, my own identity, and of course the act of painting itself. In a few different perspectives, I have been specifically exploring my relationships with people, and the multiple faces of the individual. Representing these personal relationships through portraiture, I reference the beauty of these connections through color and the symbology of nature, pattern and the human form. My work then becomes love letters of these bonds, as well as a culmination of one large, all-encompassing idea or act: holding, and to be held. The idea of being held--protected, yet expressed to the fullest representation, to be unapologetically embodied. Through acts of care in the painting process I allow these people to thrive in an environment curated specifically for them. These paintings stand as permanent artifacts, projections of their existence; being held in their own world, immortalized  as an object of admiration and reverence.

Bio

Katie Courser is a painter from Sabattus, Maine. Growing up in rural farm country, her sensitivity to nature and people caused her to be drawn intimately into landscape and portraiture. She was introduced to oil paint at 16 years old by her high school art teacher and has never looked back. Katie primarily focuses on the collision between aspects of femininity and nature. She aims to bring these ideas into an environment that influence each other visually. She uses self portraiture, family, and her friends as muses. Any nature representation is from her own surroundings, found in Maine.