KATHERINE SIMMONS
Katherine has twice been awarded First Place in the Annual Elected Artist Exhibition of the Lyme Art Association “The thought that my realist work carries on the standard set by the Connecticut Impressionist painters who founded the Lyme Art Association made this award very satisfying. In 1914, American master painters such as Childe Hassam, Willard Metcalf, and Henry Ward Ranger founded the Association in order to present the finest art for sale – a tradition continued by the Association today.”
Kathy earned a Fine Arts Degree from the Massachusetts College of Art, rounding out her formal training in master classes with oil painter Charles Sovek and pastelist Robert Scott Jackson. Simmons’ work has been featured in “The Pastel Journal,” “American Artist,” and “Connecticut Magazine.” She is an Elected Artist Member of the Connecticut Plein Air Painters Society, Connecticut Women Artists, Lyme Art Association, Salmagundi Club, and Oil Painters of America.
EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS
2021 Annual Members Show, Connecticut Women Artists, 2nd Prize
Adventures in Abstraction, 2018, Glastonbury Arts, Glastonbury CT.
New England Landscape Exhibition, 2017, Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme CT
95th Annual Elected Artist Exhibition, 2016, Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme CT
Celebrating Lyme’s Beauty, 2013, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London CT
2011 Summer Painting & Sculpture Exhibition, Lyme Art Association
2009 On the Green Fine Art & Craft Show, First Prize in Oils
Painting the River Exhibition, 2009, Connecticut River Museum, Essex, CT
88th Annual Elected Artist Exhibition, 2009, Lyme Art Association
2008 Group Show, Hunt Hill Farm Trust Gallery, New Milford, CT,
Solo Show, Hartford Fine Art & Framing Gallery, East Hartford, CT, 2008 and 2002
2007 Still Life Invitational, Susan Powell Fine Art, Madison, CT
2006 Annual Exhibition of CT Plein Air Painters Society, Juror: Don Stone, NA
2006 Westport Art Festival – Best in Show for Pastel, Westport CT
2005 Exhibition of Oil Pastel Society – Awarded Best in Show, Juror: Terry Ludwig
Connecticut Women Artists Annual Exhibition, 2004, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT
Annual Juried Exhibition, Hudson Valley Art Association, 2004, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
Minds Island Juried Exhibition, 2003, Pen & Brush Club, New York, NY
Annual Combined Exhibition, 2002, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
National Open Juried Exhibition, 2002, Sourthern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester VT
Solo Show, 2003, The Potter’s House, New Britain, CT
Annual Juried Member Exhibition, Connecticut Pastel Society, 2002, Middletown CT
West Hartford Art League Annual Open Juried Show – Award winner 2000, 2001 and 2003
Solo Show, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT 2001
