ABOUT the ARTIST

Since the beginning of her art career in 1968, Kathleen O’Brien has persistently empowered her life and art with the perceptible transformative presence of energy. Nature has been an enduring source of inspiration, and its essence is palpable in all her work including drawing, painting, artifacts and mixed-media collages. For her, art is a spiritual practice that she approaches with intention to transmit the beauty she encounters. She has exhibited the astonishing array of her artwork in over 100 venues nationally and teaches. 

She was born in Japan. Her artistic family and other places she has lived, especially Italy, and Colorado imbued essential influences that guide her aesthetic. She is primarily self-taught, and is grateful to her first teacher, her grandfather, and the classes she attended at Kunstshule Rodel, Germany, Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC, and the Naropa University, Boulder, CO. She acknowledges her spiritual teachers, Wallace Black Elk and other Native American Elders, who impressed on her the aliveness of the Earth, and Elizabeth Frediani, founder of Transformational Healing Institute, who instilled grounded methods of soul level healing. She works full time from the home studio she designed and her husband built at Sunwise Farm and Sanctuary.