Kathy Rennell Forbes is an award-winning painter in watercolor, acrylic and oil. Kathy earned her BFA in Art and Art Education at the University of Georgia. She is a past President and Signature Member of the Georgia Watercolor Society. She teaches drawing and painting classes in the Atlanta area and workshops in the USA and Italy. She also juries art shows. Her paintings are in private and corporate collections across the globe (to include the International Olympic Committee of France in Paris, Universal Studios in LA, Hotel Intercontinental in Atlanta, and Telestra Corporation in Melbourne, Australia).
I paint every day either in my studio, outdoors or live during class demonstrations. My watercolors are painted in a traditional, impressionistic style; capturing the light and beauty with transparent pigment. I love to capture people and places in a moment of time; to transport them into a work of art that viewers can treasure again and again.
The Visual Stories series were inspired by my time in Hawaii and making quilts. I incorporated the Hawaiian quilt making techniques into my mandalas in order to tell a story using visual imagery and symbols. Like a quilt, these stories have multiple layers. Each image has multiple rings that can be read in a clockwise manner. Initially the paintings were composed of connected silhouettes, which later evolved into detailed etched drawings onto the painted surface. The images stay connected like the quilts.
Visit her site at www.artbykf.com