Welcome to Blue Eyes Studio!

Blue Eyes Studio is an autobiographical portal of my multimedia art. It is through Blue Eyes Studio that I hope to extend my personal artistic and literary response to the environments and cultural influences I experience. 

Much like a mason jar my intention is to preserve and honor the beauty of nature through my art. The subjects I choose to depict in my drawing-based works of art, are largely mined from the natural environments, which I inhabit. My works of art are painterly in their application of material, however conceptually I am interested in weaving elements of our natural world together within a composition.  The weaving together of different elements of life allows me to introduce a dialogue of relationships. Topographical line work generates anatomical realism in surreal spaces.

Blue Eyes Studio is the mason jar that contains, displays and disperses my concepts and ideas about my art and the culture I am experiencing. It offers a sense of nostalgia and hope, and will surround you in the beauty of nature. I hope that Blue Eyes Studio, will spark thought regarding our dependent relationships with each other and with our more-than-human companions. My work thus extends beyond the immediate visual aesthetic to conceptual ideas of how we are interwoven with all beings and are thus generating a living fabric of life that we are all a part of.

Preserve what you love and seek the vision to make a change.

Kathryn graduated from medicine from the University of Alberta in 1985. After completing a rotating internship in Saskatoon, she specialized in Paediatric medicine. Kathryn worked for five years as an emergency physician at the Alberta Children’s Hospital, continuing for the remaining of her medical career as a developmental paediatrician, working with families to support the learning and development of their children. Kathryn returned to the passions of her heart, obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the now Alberta University of the Arts in 2014, winning the Governor General Award of Canada for the graduating class. Kathryn combined part of her art practice with that of her paediatrics by obtaining level 1 training in Expressive Arts and offered this as a therapeutic modality to some of her young patients. Kathryn completed her Master of Interdisciplinary Arts from the University of Hartford, Connecticut in 2022. Kathryn is set to retire from medicine but will look forward to a full time career as an art practitioner, expressive arts facilitator and a director of Slough Studios, an interdisciplinary arts research and creation facility in the hamlet of Parson British Columbia.