Kathleen Frugé-Brown

Kathleen Frugé-Brown is a painter, printmaker, and public artist with a long-standing commitment to imagery from the natural world. The foundation of her practice is plein-air oil painting, on the riverbanks and in the forest surrounding her Cascade foothills studio. Kathleen loves the complexity and density of the natural world, and tries to make each brushstroke an exuberant and reverent response to nature.

In recent years, Kathleen’s interest in creating public art has led her to translate her imagery into a variety of other media, including glass mosaic, epoxy enamel, and vitreous enamel on steel and glass.

Her work is held in numerous public collections, and among her awards are a recent Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant and a Hauberg Fellowship from Pilchuck Glass School, in aid of her exploration of new media.

Whether creating a public commission or working on a more intimate oil painting, Kathleen brings the same sense of purpose to her work: to awaken in viewers the feeling of connection and wholeness that she feels when she’s out of doors, painting.

PAINTINGS