Oil painting
Kathy M Haycock fell in love with plein air oil painting in 1998 after many years as a fiber artist and tapestry weaver.
Her favorite ‘studio’ is on location, in the wilderness landscape. Through her art she finds a close connection with the natural world, and advocates for conservation in her art and through her sales of art.
Kathy lives in Eastern Ontario’s Algonquin wilderness, surrounded by the changing seasons she paints daily. Northern painting trips have taken her to Alaska, Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut and western Greenland. In her eastern Ontario studio, a restored log barn, she works up large canvases developing themes derived from her plein air field sketches.
Painting trips to the American Southwest over the past 20 years have drawn her to Arizona’s Superstition Mountain wilderness where she now returns every winter. Here Kathy explores the remote back country, unique light and warm colors of the Sonoran Desert and develops large canvases back in her Arizona studio.
Largely self-taught, the award winning artist cites her father, Arctic artist Maurice Haycock, and his long time painting partner A.Y. Jackson of the famous Canadian Group of Seven as the major influences in her work.
Kathy is an elected member of the Society of Canadian Artists (SCA), Artists for Conservation (AFC) and the Ontario Society of Artists (OSA). She is a member of the Artists of the Superstitions, Canadian Plein Air Painters, Wild Women Wilderness Artists, East Central Ontario Art Association, the Madawaska Valley Studio Tour, the Plein Air Ensemble and Arizona Plein Air Painters. She exhibits in solo exhibitions across Canada and the North and has been recognized with awards in numerous juried shows. She presents lectures, demonstrations and workshops. Her paintings are featured in many books and publications. Kathy’s work is represented in public and commercial galleries and in private, public and corporate collections across Canada and internationally. A firm supporter of conservation, Kathy donates a portion of all sales to environmental foundations.
