I am a visionary and a mystic and painting is my playground.
Katelyn is not your ordinary artist. She is a shamanic artist who paints images that transform the viewer.
Katelyn had a life long dream of deepening her understand of herbs and their healing potential. She has worked with and used herbs since her twenties. In 2020 during the pandemic she decided to use her time to study the Science and Art of Herbalism with Rosemary Gladstar, internationally known pioneer in herbal studies. In 2021 she completed the course work to become a Traditional Herbalist and started her Magic of Alchemy Apothecary.
She is a visionary artist as well as a trained expressive arts therapist with training in art therapy, sandplay therapy and play therapy. She has been an artist since she was a young girl. Katelyn studied fine arts at The Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the University of Minnesota, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree. She received her Masters Degree in Human Development from St. Mary's University in Winona, Minnesota, with an emphasis in Art, Art Therapy, and Child Abuse.
For 26 years Katelyn has pursued both a career in Art and has worked as a psychotherapist. She has been able to use the combined gifts of art and psychotherapy to work with children at risk of abuse and neglect and their families in numerous settings including: emergency shelter, residential treatment programs, a community center in a challenged neighborhood, in schools, as the director of a Therapeutic Preschool, in in-home family therapy and private practice. Katelyn served as the president of The Minnesota Art therapy Association for a two year term and on the Board of the Minnesota Sandplay Therapy Group for a three year term.
Katelyn has been a student of metaphysics for many years. She has explored shamanic traditions throughout the world including Native American and Australian Aboriginal. she has studied with a shaman from Peru, a Cherokee lineage holder a Chilean Medicine woman and a teacher in Hawaii. Incorporated into that is a study of the writings of Rudolf Steiner, Tibetan teachings, mythology, numerology and other metaphysical subjects. Katelyn has traveled extensively in Mexico studying sacred sites.
Katelyn uses a shamanic/intuitive means of creating art that gives form to the sacred. The artwork is intended to reach inner levels so an energetic dialog can begin between the art and the viewer. Katelyn's original watercolor paintings are fresh, playful, whimsical and yet deep and powerful. For more information about her creative process see articles included in Creative Expression section.
In 2012 Katelyn began studying the Mischetechnik with Philip Rubinov-Jacobson who study for years with Ernst Fuchs, Austrian leading in this painting movement. She has studied at month long seminars around the world.
