A Brief and Personal Note:

My art studio is in my open and light-filled home in Gloucester, MA.  Whatever subject I pursue in my art-making, it is with a deep desire to learn from and experience full beauty. I also seek balance, service and community and so work as a registered nurse in Boston, supporting primarily unhoused individuals recovering from or struggling with substance use. This work teaches me many things, especially about human strength, fragility, tenacity and weakness, and it feeds my hunger to create beauty. For me, the very real, earthy experience of caring for people, often in crisis, balances out the heady, loose, rich freedom of painting. Creating art is not separate from other aspects of my life. It winds in and out of all my experiences, giving voice and image to the things I need to say. 

Painting has always been a stabilizing force in my emotional core. It has given me the ability to tolerate and celebrate my individual human aloneness, and this is a great gift. Again and again throughout my life, I turn to painting as a way to relax, to give, to receive, to grieve, to express rage, frustration or joy, and to feel whole. The studio space is so familiar, and in making the work, my arm and eye begin to feel more like spirit and I travel to some other place, and the movements of my body, like my mind, alternate in a slow or frenzied dance. 

I allow desire and intuition to guide my choice of subject. The art itself often leads me onward; I lean into my curiosity and use it to explore whatever feels life-giving and interesting. My art tells me a story. It leaves a mind-expanding beauty within me that rattles around long after I move away from it. It is a place of rest and stillness. It beckons to me, it changes me.

Thank you for being here with me!

-Kathleen George, 2024, Leap Day

Collaborations and Exhibitions:

Present

  • Represented by Gallery Twist in Lexington, MA

  • Ongoing collaboration with Landry and Arcari, Art Rug Collection featuring designs from paintings, Salem, MA

  • Art With Action-Founded in 2017, a fundraising platform on social media sites to sell original paintings; all proceeds donated to civic organizations to promote social justice. 

2024

  • Lyrical, Group exhibit at Gallery Twist, Lexington, MA 

2023

  • Touch Stone, Bastille Day Exhibit at Decouvert Fine Art, Rockport, MA

2022

  • Flights Of Fancy, Group exhibit at Gallery Twist, Lexington, MA 

2021

  • Illumination, Annual group exhibit at Gallery Twist, Lexington, MA

2020

  • RAA&M National 2020, Nationally Juried Group Exhibit at Rockport Art Association and Museum, Rockport, MA

  • Illumination, Annual Group Exhibit at Gallery Twist, Lexington, MA

  • Go Out Doors, Installation for Lexington Historical Society, Lexington MA

2019

  • Humdrum, Group exhibit at Gallery Twist, Lexington, MA

  • Illumination, Annual group exhibit at Gallery Twist, Lexington, MA

  • Thrive, Group exhibit at Gallery Twist, Lexington, MA

  • Layerings and Landings, Curated and exhibited at Gallery 53, Gloucester, MA

  • A Room With A View, Solo exhibit at Gallery Twist, Lexington, MA

2018

  • Illumination, Annual group exhibit at Gallery Twist, Lexington, MA

  • Findings, Mentored Gordon College students and participated in group exhibit at Porter Hill Studios, Beverly, MA

  • Gallery 53, Participating artist in juried seasonal art cooperative, Gloucester MA

  • Witch Dr Gallery, Participating artist year-round, Salem MA

2017 

  • Miniscularity, Two-person exhibit  at Jane Deering Gallery, Gloucester, MA

  • Gallery 53, Participating artist in juried seasonal art cooperative, Gloucester MA

  • Witch Dr Gallery, Participating artist year-round, Salem MA

  • Variations, Group exhibit at Marblehead Arts Association, Marblehead, MA

  • New Year Light, Solo Exhibit at Christ Church Gallery, Hamilton, MA

2016

  • Represented by Law and Water Gallery, Gloucester MA

  • Currents, Group exhibit at Law and Water Gallery, Gloucester, MA

  • The Secret Life Of Lines, Three-person exhibit at Law and Water Gallery, Gloucester, MA

  • Colors, Nationally Juried group exhibit at Providence Art Club, Providence, RI

  • Gallery 53, Participating artist in juried art cooperative, Gloucester MA

  • Witch Dr Gallery, Participating artist year-round, Salem MA

  • Beyond Plein Air, Group exhibit at Rocky Neck Art Colony Cultural Center, Gloucester, MA

2015

  • Small Is Beautiful, Group exhibit at Cedar Gallery, Essex, MA

  • Creative Salem, Participating artist featured in Salem restaurants

  • Matz Gallery at Sawyer Free Library, Featured artist, Gloucester, MA

Awards/Features

2023: Recipient of Mass Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant. 

              Cover story for Cape Ann Cosmos, feature story in Gloucester Daily Times

2018: Bio and Artwork featured in The Boston Voyager, online publication

2017: Bio and Artwork featured in Boston Accent Lit, online publication

2016: Awarded cash prize and honorable mention at nationally juried exhibit Colors, Providence Art Club

2001: Graduated with honors and received Baccalaureate in Fine Art from Gordon College, Wenham, MA