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Make mighty and memorable paintings with
Kathleen Elsey in Santa Barbara, California.
April 25, 26 & 27th, 2015   Details here.

Santa Barbara Painting Workshop

Lavender Matanzas Creek Winery
Kathleen Elsey Thomas Moser

My painting, “Lyon Street Steps, Afternoon,” is featured in my solo exhibition in San Francisco. Also included in the exhibition are my landscape paintings vibrant with color, beach paintings dancing with movement and still life paintings full of memories. I made a "sneak preview" video of my studio and how I made this painting and you can see it by clicking on the small image of the unfinished painting.

Learn more about my paintings and my process through this 2013 interview by Daniel Kepl of “Bravo California!“ See the interview here.

Kathleen Elsey paintings South western paintings painting workshops
"Rio Grand Morning" New Mexico

Kathleen Elsey Paintings Southwest Paintings

Kathleen Elsey videos— my painting process, my passion for paintingKathleen Elsey Grand Canyon

I am always learning and I enjoy sharing my thoughts, tools and techniques with you whether it be in reference to paintings or art. Select any of the thumbnails below to watch a video of each painting. The top thumbnail is a discussion about laminating canvas sheets to hardboard.
Viiolin Red GobletsStinson Beach Fog Rolling InLyon Street Steps San Francisco Steps of Telegraph Hill San Francisco 

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Grand Canyon

"Brush with Life"painting exhibition at Alain Pinel ends January 30th.
32 Miller Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941   (415) 384-1111

 “Kathleen Elsey’s paintings exert a bold, almost
post-Fauvist-meets-punk touch in her work. “Sunlit Room,” for one, flirts with burly Van Gogh effects, with a vivified palette and brusque brushwork. It’s the mightiest and most memorable painting in the room.” 
Josef Woodard­–Santa Barbara News Press

“Award of Excellence” in Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, New Mexico

Kathleen Elsey paintings New Mexico paintings, Southwest paintings
Two Kathleen Elsey New Mexico paintings have been accepted for the Millicent Rogers Museum exhibition of the Plein Air Painters of New Mexico through November 4th, 2013.

Kathleen Elsey paintings New Mexico paintings, Southwest paintings, Pilar, New Mexico “Pilar, Summer"

Kathleen Elsey Painting Workshop Sunny Beach Stinson“Sunny Beach, with Yellow Umbrella”


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