KatrinaWeber.com - Paintings in Oil, Watercolor, & Pastel

Katrina Geissler Weber

Landscapes, Figures, and Still Life Paintings
in Oil and Pastel

"Painting, which has been my passion all my life, has led me to a heightened awareness of the beauty all around us. My delight - and my challenge - is to express this beauty through my art. My quest is a continuing exploration of color, the effects of light and atmosphere; of brushstrokes, edges, and shapes. What a fantastic journey....

My goal is to paint in a style which transcends the literal, without losing touch with reality. I have learned much from other painters who have gone before me. My early exposure to art produced a love for the work of European expressionists and post-Impressionists including Cezanne, Van Gogh, and Gauguin, which I maintain to this day. I also feel a strong kinship with a number of the California Impressionists -- William Wendt and Franz Bischoff are two of my favorites. My more recent studies have given me an appreciation of a much wider range of masters, including contemporary painters such as Quang Ho, Richard Schmid and Matt Smith.

Katrina's favorite painting mode is outdoors, "en plein air," but she also works in the studio using field studies and photographs as reference material. She views her art as a life-long exploration, and reads, visits galleries, and attends workshops on an ongoing basis. She has studied with John Budicin, Jean LeGassick, Quang Ho, George Strickland, and Hongnian Zhang.

Katrina's work has been shown at numerous venues in Alabama and Tennessee, and she has received many awards and recognitions. She has held nine solo exhibits and participated in over two dozen juried or invitational group shows during the past seven years. She was juried into the prestigious national "Paint the Parks" traveling show in 2010, and was awarded one of four national merit scholarships by Oil Painters of America in 2009. Her paintings hang in corporate and private collections across the U.S.

Katrina en plein air

the studio

Katrina Weber's paintings can be seen by appointment at her studio
in Huntsville, Alabama; at the following galleries:

Dragonfly Gallery, 125 Main Ave.S., Fayetteville, TN, Wed-Fri 10-5, Sat 10-2.

The Little Green Store, 820 Monte Sano Blvd, Huntsville, Ala.

Kathleen's (formerly Willis Gray Gallery), 211B 2nd Ave., Decatur Ala. (256-355-7616)

and at a number of different venues (see "Current and Upcoming Events" below).

The artist welcomes commission work.

Contact her at (256) 536-1397, or at candkweber@gmail.com

Corporate and Museum Collections

Katrina Weber's works hang in numerous private collections across the country, and at

Gadsden, AL Museum of Art permanent collection

Clearview Cancer Center, Huntsville, Alabama.

Energen Corporation, Birmingham, Alabama

Current and Upcoming Events

Huntsville Museum of Art - 21st Annual Gala & Art Auction
February 12 - March 3, 2012

"Art of Nature: The Sanctuary Artists" invitational group show

Tennessee Valley Museum of Art, Tuscumbia, AL - Mar. 18 - May 11.
Huntsville Museum of Art June 24 - Oct. 7, 2012.

Selected Past Exhibits and Achievements

Pane e Vino, Huntsville Museum of Art - solo exhibit, Nov. 2010 - August 2011

Third Annual Southeastern Invitational Plein Air Festival,
Gadsden, Al. April, 2011

"Art of Nature: The Sanctuary Artists"
(invitational group show) multiple venues throughout Alabama
2010-2011.

Huntsville Museum of Art Gala Exhibition - February 13- March 6, 2011

"Local Color" - Invitational Exhibit - Progress Bank, Huntsville, Al. October 2010, 2011.

"High Summer - Mt. Rainier" was juried into the top 100 paintings nationally, in Paint America's 2010 "Paint the Parks" competition, and was shown during an 18-month series of exhibits at venues across the United States.

One of Featured Artists, Second Annual Southeastern Plein Air Festival,
Gadsden, Al. May, 2010.

"The Wonders of Alabama Art" - 2005, 2007-2011
Energen Corporation (juried), Birmingham, Alabama.

"Unique Views of Huntsville" (juried) - 2007-2011 - Huntsville Museum of Art:
Awards of Distinction - 2007, 2009, & 2010.

Invitational Plein Air Art Benefit - Huntsville Land Trust, 2008 - 2011.

Monte Sano Art Show (juried) - Monte Sano State Park, Huntsville, Alabama
1999-2005, 2007-2008, & 2010-2011.

Recipient, one of four national Shirl Smithson Scholarships,
Oil Painters of America, 2009.

Central South Art Exhibition (juried), Nashville, Tenn. - 2006, 2008, 2009.

Featured Artist at Signature Gallery, Huntsville, AL - March-April 2009.

Sierra Club of Alabama: "Alabama Heritage - Wild and Rural Art"
Red Dot Gallery, Birmingham, AL, September - October 2009.

"Paint the Parks 2009" (Paint America) - juried into "Second 100 Paintings".

"Paint the Parks 2008" (Paint America) - juried into "Second 50 Mini Paintings."

Two-person exhibit, Heritage Club, Huntsville, Ala. - 2004, 2008.

Alabama Pastel Society - National Exhibit (juried), Hoover, Alabama - Merit Award, 2008.

Limelight Artist (solo exhibit), Huntsville Art League Gallery, Huntsville, Alabama
December 2007 and May 2004.

Included in Huntsville Sketchbook, Indigo Custom Publishing, Macon, Ga. - 2006.

"Plein Air Views of Huntsville," Huntsville Museum of Art - 2005.

Updated 24 January 2012.

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