Kathleen Florence Reichelt's artistic practice involves oil painting, writing for stage and creating sound and visual installations. Notable achievements include her being selected by the Camac Art Centre in France for a residency in 2008 and being chosen by the McMichael Gallery in Kleinburg, Ontario to demonstrate and discuss techniques and approaches to oil painting at the “Artists at Work” in 2005 and 2006. In the past decade she has produced a number of multi disciplinary performances and exhibitions. Her paintings have been accepted in juried exhibitions in both public and commercial galleries across Toronto and southern Ontario.

Artist's Statement

My primary studio practice is oil painting that focuses on colour theory. I am interested in how colour represents and affects our experiences and environment, how colour is analogous to language.

I earned a degree in Cultural Studies before attending art school, so my work is influenced by social theory and the exploration of boundaries between self and other, logic and intuition, memory and dream. My creative process involves placing my philosophies, ideas and stories on canvas, assembled in forms of vibrant and periodically complex colour combinations.