Kathy Morrow

As a child of the Southwest, Kathy Morrow was raised on the San Carlos Apache Reservation in Arizona and Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, where her father organized and trained Indian police forces. Many of Kathy's pieces reflect Native American legends, but her work is more than a visualization of Indian legends. She pulls into her art an intimacy about herself and her feelings for the people and animal friends in her life. Whether she is telling a story about a Native American friend's experience in Vietnam or her feelings of the power and strength of womanhood, her art invites the viewer to share her recent experiences and the treasures of her past.

Her life experiences, combined with formal art training at Northern Arizona State University and the Maryland Institute of Art, have brought her to the medium of Scratchboard. Kathy paints with both watercolors and oils on a clay coated board called Scratchboard. This medium is extremely detailed and time consuming with as much as 200 to 600 hours of work in a single painting. A combination of brushwork and cutting fine line details with a knife has brought Scratchboard from a traditional black and white art-form into full color. In 1990, Kathy's newest work went beyond all tradition to bring Scratchboard into the third dimension. Two different originals are planned and set up in a manner that allows different images to be seen as the viewer moves past the painting. Kathy Morrow's Kinetic Art is a "must-see" in person!

Only one original a year is selected for limited edition reproduction. The edition size is very small - 250 and 25 Artist Proofs. Each reproduction is numbered and signed by the artist, and includes a Certificate of Authenticity.

Kathy Morrow
PO Box 1749
Mesilla Park, NM 88047
1-800-234-5641

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