Katherine

Jennings

Katherine Jennings is an award-winning contemporary realist painter. She works both en plein air and in her Chapel Hill studio. Her landscape, cityscape and seascape paintings reflect her love of travel. With diverse subjects ranging from an abandoned sugar plantation in Nevis to the rocky coastline of a remote Maine island, she is inspired by the incredible beauty found in such unique locations. Influenced by Hopper, she worked in Development in his Nyack childhood home. Committed to the arts throughout her career as an intellectual property attorney, she is currently a writer on art and law issues. Jennings is a Juried member of CLWAC, OPA, AIS, Lyme Art, and AWA and several plein air groups including the San Diego Plein Air Painters. Her work has been featured in Plein Air Magazine and Fine Art Connoisseur, and she received the prestigious CLWAC Katherine A. Lovell Memorial Award. She studied at the National Academy, Montclair Art Museum, and the Arts Students League, and has exhibited at the Salmagundi Club, National Arts Club, Calloway Fine Art, Upstream Gallery, Lyme Art Association, Durham Arts Guild, Margaret Lane Gallery, Eno Mill Gallery and Golden Belt, among other galleries. Awards/Accolades: PleinAir Magazine, Dec 2023, Selected Participant in Go Figure Digital Portfolio; Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, March/April 2023, Selected Participant in “Ways to Travel” Portfolio; PleinAir Magazine, Aug/Sept 2022, Selected Participant in City Sights Portfolio; Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club's 2019 Katherine A. Lovell Memorial Award; Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center, Nyack, NY, Featured Artist in “Live Painting Series at Hopper House Jazz Concert”; Boldbrush, FAV15% October 2023, June 2022, April 2020, February 2020, April 2019, April 2018 Painting Competitions; First Place in Oils and Irish Spirit Award, St. Catherine of Bologna Patron of the Arts Ass'n 13th Annual Photo, Art and Poetry Exhibition, Spring 2012 and Honorable Mention, Spring 2011; Second Prize, Caldwell Merchant Association Avenue Street Fair, "Art on the Avenue," Spring 2010. Certified Art Law Mediator at Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, NYC J.D., Fordham University School of Law, NY, NY (admitted NJ & NY) B.A. in History cum laude, Duke University, Durham, NC

Finding that the world can be transformed by the ephemeral beauty of light, my challenge is to capture that fleeting moment. Often returning to the same subject, I find each rendition reflects a particular moment. History informs the present and echoes of the past are forever evident. Whether it be a striking Carolina barn reduced to a skeletal frame upon a second visit or coastal cliffs suddenly erased due to climate change, my paintings aim to preserve a moment. By doing so, the viewer will have indisputable evidence of what was and what will be.

Oil / Alkyd

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