Presented by Mountain Sage Gallery

Kathryn Fehlig holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana with a major in drawing, printmaking and oil painting. Further graduate and continuing education studies in art education, painting/printmaking, graphic design/digital production and photography gave her a firm foundation in both graphics and fine art. The artist has been drawing and painting for many years. In college her passion was large abstract oil paintings but she has evolved towards a highly designed, richly colored and painterly representational style using pastels and acrylics. She is also an excellent draftsman working in pencil, ink, scratchboard and charcoal. Because of her love of animals and years of experience as a horse trainer, rider and showman, she enjoys painting and drawing horses. Her specialties are local landscapes in pastel and acrylic and painting “plein air” whenever Montana weather permits. She studied with landscape pastel artist Colleen Howe in 2005 and received a Montana Arts Council Professional Development Grant in 2006 to study with master pastelist Richard McKinley. She also studied with McKinley in 2008. Further studies figure drawing/painting with Dawn Emerson in 2010; Carolyn Anderson in 2012 and 2013; acrylic/oil painting with Elizabeth Bass and Tom Gilleon in 2014; horses with Charles Dayton in 2015; plein air with Howard Friedland in 2016; and painting with Bye Bitney in 2017. Kathryn holds signature memberships in the Pastel Society of America, the Northwest Pastel Society, the International Society of Acrylic Painters, and an associate membership with Women Artists of the West.  She is also a member of the Helena Art Center and the Mountain Sage Gallery. Kathryn has had one-man shows in Indiana, Missouri and Montana. Her work has been shown and won top awards in juried group shows across the U.S. and her paintings and drawings are in museums and many private collections.