Art at the Chamber Features Kathy Birdsong

Art at the Chamber is currently featuring local artist Kathy Birdsong, displaying a number of her oil paintings as well as pieces in other media. Her work will be up through September. We encourage you to take a look at these wonderful works and ask about the availability of paintings for sale.

Kathy Birdsong Bio:

Kathy got back into her art making after retiring from teaching in 2005. She has moved from predominantly acrylic painting to oils, but still keeps active with acrylics, pastels, watercolor, collage and pen and ink drawings. Her style moves from abstract to realism, with an emphasis on figurative work. She is greatly influenced by the Bay Area Figurative Movement and the work of Ray Turner and Mark Daniel Nelson. She has studied with Bay Area painters Melinda Cootsona, William Rushton, Jerrold Turner, and Tim Horn. She studied with Philippa Blair at the Santa Reparata Institute of Art in Florence, Italy (2008), and has painted with Robert Burridge in his studio (2010, 2013). She has also studied with Mark Daniel Nelson (2014, 2015) and Martin Campos (2016). She is a member of The Joules painting group, Benicia's Plein Air Group (Da Group), and Healdsburg Center for the Arts.

Education

1967: Bachelor of Arts degree from San Jose State University with a major in Commercial Art, emphasis in illustration.
1970: California Teaching Credential, Sonoma State University.

Art Studies post graduation

2005-present: Erin Neal Tangney, bi-monthly art studio instruction
2008: Santa Reparata Institute of Art, Florence, Italy, Painting with Philippa Blair
2009- present: Plein Air studies with Tim Horn, Jerrold Turner
Figurative studies with Melinda Cootsona, William Rushton, Vicki Long.
Studio painting with Robert Burridge, Peggy Kroll Roberts, Kwok Wai Lau, Mark Daniel Nelson, Martin Campos.

Exhibits

Healdsburg Center for the Arts juried and invited shows 2011-present
China Camp Heritage Festival exhibits 2012, 2013
Umpqua Bank, Benicia, group exhibit 2013; Best of Show 2014-15.
Palm Springs Art Museum annual juried exhibit of work done in museum workshops.
Scene On the Strait 2014, invitational Bay Area plein air exhibit, Martinez Shoreline Park.
Harrington Gallery at The Firehouse Arts Center, Pleasanton: "Inside and Out" The Joules group show August 2015; Invited artist to paint during gallery anniversary celebration, September, 2015; Alcove show of works painted at Anniversary Celebration, November, 2015
Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce: Featured artist. May - September, 2016