KAT SAWYER

A Life of Fashion, Film & Fine Art

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  Kat Sawyer was raised in Pasadena, California, at the hem of the magnificent San Gabriel Mountains. She spent much of her childhood outdoors exploring the land that inspired so many early Impressionists. With her scientist father’s love of nature and her artist mother’s love of beauty, Kat came to landscape painting in a natural, but roundabout way.

She began her artistic life by exclusively pursuing a career in acting. She received a B.A. in theater from U.C.L.A. and has appeared in close to one hundred television shows and commercials.

To balance her outward focus as a performer, Kat has been practicing the inner discipline of yoga for over thirty years. She’s been teaching this art since 1993.

Her painting career was the result of two happy co-incidences. She fell in love with early California Impressionism, at the same time falling for a fly fisherman. She thought, “I like Nature. I like art. Landscape painting! It will give me something to do while he’s fishing.” She was hooked.

Kat works exclusively in oil. She may paint en plein air, in the studio, or a combination of both. She strives to heighten the feeling of escape into a wild and untouched place where one can experience their true, authentic self.

Kat’s influences are the old California masters – Maurice Braun, John Gamble, Hanson Puthuff. Essentially self-taught, Kat has painted with some of today’s finest modern Impressionists – Kevin MacPherson, Ray Roberts, and her long- time inspiration, Karl Dempwolf.

Recently, Kat has embarked on new influences with her paintings, specifically seminars and workshops with the renown painter Michael Lynch and one of his successful artistic associate, David Ballew.

Her humorous article, “Extreme Painting” (the perils of plein air) was published in the October 2003 issue of The Artist’s Sketchbook magazine. In March 2006, The Artists Magazine featured her essay, “The Painting-Yoga Connection”.

As for the future, Kat plans to split her time between her first love, California and her new love, New Mexico. She and her fisherman have moved to Santa Fe where she continues to study with her most significant muse and mentor, Nature.

Nature is my muse and mentor. I feel most at peace when nestled in the arms of Mother Earth. Whether it be wandering through a high desert sunrise, sleeping under Orion’s Belt, learning from the wisdom of the river, or taking a scolding from a scrub jay, here is where I feel most authentically myself.
Capturing the essence of our diminishing wild places in my paintings is my passion. I’d like to open the viewer’s eyes and heart to the simple pleasures that are everywhere around us. If I can communicate this peaceful feeling and instill a reverence for our magnificent Planet through my art, then I feel I have been of some small service






Abiquiu Winter


Along The Gila


Autumn Sanctuary


Bosquein Winter


Cliffs At Dawn

Dappled Shallows

Dawn On The Mesa

Citrine

Early Summer Sundown

Cottonwood Twilight

Crescendo

Abiquiu Dawn

Pewter Sky

Prairie Sunrise

East Light

Summer Reflection

Sunrise

Winter's Rest

Gossamer Twilight

Last Light of Day

Mist on the Water

Perfect Stillness

Reflection in the Tide

Sherbet Cliffs

Silver Ribbons

Summer Morning

Sunset Offering

Vermillion Sky