Portraits & Dreams
“My paintings are a collection of portraits, figures and partial figures. As subjects, I am drawn to homeless people, street musicians, or psychics. My work is heavily influenced by the tarot cards, and the symbolism used in them. Using cartoon-like drawings and unrealistic colors, I feel like it creates this world oscillating between dreams and reality. I use layers of spray paint, oil paint and sometimes collage elements to create the image. My painting is heartfelt and expressionistic, to convey and translate the personality and emotion of the person - or about the person - that I am inspired by. I want to create an image of a mystical person in a mystical world. I am trying to capture their emotion, mood, soul, or aura. I work from a photograph that I take, and try to let intuition and fantasy take over the process of painting. My work is influenced by expressionism, surrealism, the primitive and childlike drawing of CoBra, abstract expressionism, Bay Area figurative, beat art, and symbolism.”
Katie is an artist who lives in Los Angeles, where she finds her inspiration.
You can follow Katie’s artwork on Instagram here.
