A Journey Back to Wholeness

Katherine is a Canadian wildlife artist whose tropical-inspired paintings invite a deep, meditative connection to the natural world. Working primarily with oils on canvas, she draws on the bold, sun-soaked colours of her childhood along the Pacific coast in Lima, Peru. Her vibrant palette and layered compositions explore the magic of presence, the joy of daily connection to nature, and the possibilities that emerge when imagination and the beauty of wildlife intertwine.

Beyond the studio

Her work has been featured in Women’s Art Magazine, Vanity Fair, and Artist Talk Magazine, and exhibited at the Federation Gallery (BC), Summer & Grace Gallery, the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, and Propeller Art Gallery (ON). With each purchase, Katherine donates to ocean conservation initiatives, underscoring her commitment to protecting the wildlife she paints.

Beyond the studio, Katherine mentors Artists and collaborates with global wildlife conservation organizations. She is passionate about using art and nature as tools for wellness, Self-connection, and collective care.

An entrepreneurial catalyst for change, Katherine was the first artist to launch her business through Durham College’s Fast Start program., a student entrepreneurship centre that had previously supported only tech startups. Her success inspired a wave of creative entrepreneurs to join, and her story is now displayed at the centre as a source of inspiration. In 2024, she was featured on her first podcast interview, speaking on art, mental health, and wellness. She continues to collaborate with brands dedicated to protecting wildlife, weaving her commitment to conservation into every aspect of her practice.

An invitation to pause

"Each piece I create holds a conversation between emotion, connection, and the calm we seek. It’s my way of reflecting the power of the natural world, and offering you a moment of calm in the middle of a busy, beautiful life.

Whether you're standing before a whale, a sea turtle, or a shoreline soaked in golden light, I hope you feel it too...that sense of belonging to something bigger. A pause. An exhale."

How Art Found Me... (Again)

"Looking back, I’ve always been an artist long before I recognized it.

At six, I was sketching cartoons before and after school. At seven, I had my first still life class painting a bowl of fruit. I remember hating having to sit still. Then at nine years old, the summer I returned to Canada, my brother and I spent our days borrowing art books from the library and sketching a lot of wildlife with our mom's "good" HB pencils. This was bliss -summer, connection, and the joy of creating.

But when that summer ended, something in me quietly dimmed.

Life got louder. Emotions got heavier. And without even noticing, I slowly stopped making space for my art, and for the feelings that once flowed through it.

For years, I kept moving forward, busying myself through the noise of life. But at 31, something shifted. I stopped running. I turned toward the fear I had long avoided, and in the process of remembering who I was, I realized:

Art had never left me.

I had simply gotten used to avoiding and resisting my connection to myself.

Nature is where I felt the most free and creativity is how I began to share that connection. The canvas held space for grief, trauma, and permission for uncertainty. And through that reconnection, I began to rediscover joy, peace and self-compassion.

I finally made room for the parts of myself I had been rejecting all my life."

If You’ve Been Searching for Peace…

Peace often lives in the places we resist the most.

  • Sometimes it arrives through colour, playful expression, or in the presence of nature.

  • Sometimes, it looks like finding yourself through self-reflection, when we finally stop running and begin listening to ourselves.

  • And often, it looks like remembering who you were…before the world told you who to be.