Katy Winters
After graduation from the Hussian School of Art, where she majored in illustration and graphic design, Katy Winters entered the world of work at The Philadelphia Zoo. She designed brochures, signage, and exhibitions for the animals she still loves to draw and paint. Katy established her freelance business by making pictures and designs for greeting cards, books and magazines, plates, tin boxes and music boxes, collectibles and home decor products. Her clients have included Lenox Collections, The Franklin Mint, National Wildlife Federation, Portal Publications, C. R. Gibson, Pictura, Waterford-Wedgwood, Unicover Corporation, The Academy of Natural Science, Running Press, and Peter Pauper Press. Even while producing for the marketplace, Katy is dedicated to her pursuit of drawing and painting, and has expanded her explorations into advanced printmaking and pottery and jewelry making.
In Katy's cosmos the invisible is revealed, the hidden is unveiled, small is eloquent, ordinary becomes beautiful. Paradoxically, her fantasy imagery makes the realm of nature, which permeates her imagination and reveals her heart, become more vital. Katy's home abounds with collections and whimsical curiosities, their proportions, colors, and forms gather themselves into her paintings, prints, and jewelry. Out the window, in the garden first tended by her grandmother, are the flowers and animals, trees and stones, birds and weather that have inspired Katy's vision since she first began to create.
Like all accomplished artists, Katy transforms our ideas by drawing us into her world of wonder. We see a dried pod from her garden transformed by gold leaf and the drab becomes luminous. We hold a chip of polished mineral set in meticulously worked silver and feel its spellbinding possibilities. Because of Katy's attention to detail we are persuaded that fairies are as visible as the tulips and lilies she so skillfully depicts. Own a print or painting by this award winning, multi-media artist and possess a universe made with caprice and magic, myth, and delight.
