KATE WENDT

Kate Wendt is a fine artist whose work explores the intersection of movement, color, and emotion. With a professional background spanning 38 years as a Commercial Interior Designer for major architectural firms, she brings a deep understanding of structure, balance, and spatial awareness to her painting practice.

From an early age, Wendt was captivated by the expressive power of movement. This fascination deepened through her long practice of dance which has become central to her artistic language. Her paintings harness the inherent properties of paint itself, allowing gesture, flow, and layering to communicate feeling and momentum. Vibrant hues and organic forms invite the viewer into an immersive visual experience that echoes the cadence of dance while offering moments of stillness and reflection.

Guided by a lifelong relationship with movement and informed by design and architecture, Wendt translates rhythm into fluid, abstract compositions that feel both energetic and meditative. Her work remains expressive and intuitive yet grounded in an underlying sense of order. Each painting becomes a visual poem,

an invitation to experience color and motion as a living, breathing force.

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Education

1970 BS Loyola University, Chicago, Ill

1979 AA Harrington College of Design, Chicago, Ill

Additional Art Education

1989-1993      Photography, & Jewelry Design, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Ill

1998-1999      Fabric Design, Kansas City Art Institute

2001-2003      Painting, Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Cambridge, MA

2017-2024      Watercolor & Acrylic Painting, Morean Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL

2018-2022      Watercolor Painting, Old Hyde Park Center, Tampa, FL

2023 & 2024   Nicholas Wilton’s Creative Visionary Program

2024                The Skilled Colorist by Andrea Wedell

2023-2024       Nicholas Wilton’s Art2Life Academy