Artist Statement

My inspiration for painting a dancer on my violin, was to combine music and fine art with the art of dance. I prepared the violin by sanding it with a very fine sandpaper to provide a surface on which to lay my paint. My medium is oil, and I paint with a palette knife on linen canvas. I found it difficult to paint on the violin because of its rigid surface and the contour of its body. The palette knife has a straight edge, and therefore did not conform to the curved surface as it does on a soft canvas. It was a challenge that I welcomed and one that allowed me to stretch my capabilities. I am very flattered and feel honored to have my passion in life exhibited for such a wonderful cause.

Prior to her career as an accomplished artist, Kati Rosenbaugh received a Bachelor’Äôs degree in Business Administration from Central Michigan University. After relocating to Colorado and following a period of enjoying the corporate life, she decided to pursue her passion and earnest and enrolled in her first formal art class. Educated in watercolor, acrylic, charcoal, and pastel, her affection towards oil painting has dominated most of her canvases and time. Favoring large canvases, on which she covers with thick, dynamic splashes of vivid color, she describes her style as expressionistic impressionism with an impasto flair. Kati paints her subjects with a palette knife, capturing the image the viewer can identify with, but filtered through the artist’Äôs sensibilities. Her generous application of oil paint, lends depth, character and life to each piece. Using a rainbow palette, she creates joyful works of art full of life and movement. Her subjects range from lush floral arrangements, European scenes to ballet and flamenco dancers who seem posed to twirl off the wall and leap into the room. Kati’Äôs work has brought her national recognition on both the east and west coasts and several of her paintings are on display in private collections in London, Japan, and Australia. Kati is represented in galleries in Littleton, Colorado, Denver, Colorado and Fort Collins, Colorado. Kati resides in Littleton, Colorado and can be found most days painting in her studio at the Garage Gallery and Fine Art Studio in Historic Downtown Littleton, in which she is the founding partner of this former mechanic’Äôs garage, tastefully renovated into an artist’Äôs gallery and working studio.