Where This Artist Loves to Create

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Kathaleen Brewer is a self-taught artist who never stops exploring new mediums, techniques, and jobs. Her first gallery exhibitions were in California back in the 1980's and included black and white photography, manipulated Polaroids, and pastels. Today she works primarily in oils and pastels, creates vases and jewelry in polymer clay, writes screenplays, and finished her first novel.

Before moving to Georgia in 2005, she was an art commissioner for the City of Ojai, California, and owned the business Ojai Art Garden.  When Kathaleen arrived in Fayetteville, Georgia, she opened Fayette County’s first art center and gallery which developed into ArtWorks on the Square in downtown Fayetteville. It was while directing ArtWorks, that she began focusing on oil painting. She studied under Oil Painters of America winner Charles Walls Young and Atlanta’s well-known artist, Kris Meadows. She also took workshops with Oil Painters of America’s signature master landscape artist, John Potoshisnik, and became active in the plein air movement, attending workshops in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  

She has been accepted into the Oil Painters of America, the Women’s Caucus for the Arts, the National Acrylic and Oil Painters Association, Women Artists of America, and the American Impressionist Society. Her work has been juried into national shows. 

She lost the rented ArtWorks  building during the 2009 Recession so started teaching out of her home studio. She was elected to serve on the City of Fayetteville's City Council during that time. Her term was from 2015-2019.  

She still teaches, paints, and writes.   "I realize I am breaking the #1  business rule by not sticking to a certain genre,  but I've never been one  to obey rules.  Life is too short."