As a colorist, Kathleen Byrnes has taken to working plen air, challenging her to work quickly and spontaneously. Working in both oil and pastel, Kathleen has produced works that explore the light and structure of urban Washington DC, the Virginia and Maryland country side, as well as the inlets, bay, ocean and marshlands of Southern New Jersey. Drawn to nature and it's intersection with humans, (often noticeably absent) creates in her work an edge and strays from a romantic depiction. Her emphasis is on interpreting a scene with space and color to produce an intimate and personal expression while connecting the viewer to a universal story. The goal is not so much to represent a specific structure, stream or site, but to bring out the soul inside all nature whether natural or manmade.
Kathleen's plen air works of urban, coastal and shore images are in pastel and oil, giving her work a range of stylistic interest. Her work has been informed and influenced by the challenge of mastering both the intellectually controlled mark and the emotionally and physically expressed mark.
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Finalist in the Juried Yellow Barn Annual Members Show December 2011
Solo show Yellow Barn Gallery Glen Echo, Maryland March 2012
Honorable Mention Yellow Barn Members Show, Glen Echo, Maryland 2013
Solo Show Yellow Barn Gallery Glen Echo, Md. March 2014
William Ris Gallery Memorial Day Weekend Show Stone Harbor, NJ. 2014
William Ris Gallery Stone Harbor Plein Air Group Show Stone Harbor, NJ. 2015
Yacht Club of Stone Harbor Art Show Stone Harbor, NJ. 2013
Riverfront Renaissance Center Gallery,
Maurice River Show Millville, NJ. 2013/2015
Finalist in the Juried Yellow Barn Annual Members Show December 2014 Honorable Mention
Juried Show Notre Dame Academy Annual Art Show Feb, 2015, 2016 , 2017
Finalist in the Juried Pastel Society of New Jersey Show November 2015
Finalist in the Juried Yellow Barn Annual Members Show December 2015
MFA City Scape Competition Baltimore, Maryland Fall 2016 Third Place
Fishing Creek Spring Art Show, Villas, New Jersey 2016 Second Place
Fishing Creek Spring Art Show, Villas, New Jersey 2017 First Place
Avalon Annual Art Show, Avalon, New Jersey 2017 Third Place
Finalist in the Juried Yellow Barn Annual Members Show December 2016
Foundry Gallery Member, Washington, D.C. 2016-2017
Finalist in the Juried Yellow Barn Annual Members Show December 2017
MFA Lowe House Exhibition 2018 first place oils
Finalist in the Juried Yellow Barn Annual Members Show 2020
Gallery B Bethesda Solo Show Bethesda, Maryland 2020
Finalist in MFA Flora and Fauna, Solomon’s Island, Maryland 2021
Finalist in the Juried Yellow Barn Annual Members Show 2021
Finalist in MFA ‘Street Scences’, Virtual Circle Gallery, 2022
Gallery B Bethesda Solo Show, Bethesda, Maryland 2022
Galleries:
Wm Ris Gallery, Stone Harbor, NJ 2014-2017 ( gallery closed)
Foundry Gallery Member, Washington, D.C. 2016-2017
Sales:
Pereaux Interior Design, Summit, NJ
Gypsy Lane Interiors, Stone Harbor, NJ
Commercial Sales:
Chain Bridge Bank, McLean, Va