Kathie Wheeler views the world through the eyes of an artist.  Her desire to create was nutrtured early on. Kathie was born in 1962 and was raised in the Chicago area. As a young child, she was drawn to the spirit of the Hudson River School of Artists and the American Impressionists who took to the fields and woods with their sketchbooks and paints to record the beauty of their surroundings. As a young woman, she studied at the American Academy of Art, where she won the prestigious Union Art League Scholarship Competition, then worked as a freelance commercial artist and portrait artist.

Kathie creates remarkable landscapes and portraits and works primarily with a rich oil palette, but also enjoys dabbling in pastel, watercolor and drawing with conte', charcoal, pencil and ink.  She paints plein air throughour the year, as well as working in the studio, and teaches drawing and painting in the Middle and High Schools as well as adult classes.

 Kathie, her husband and two children live on a small farm in southwest Wisconsin.  Her paintings reflect the experience of her life in the valley in the way that only someone who has lived and worked the land here can.  "I try to put the feeling or emotion I see in a place or person on the canvas.  My hope is that the viewer can take some of that away with them."

Kathie Wheeler
608-675-3655 
tom_kathie@mwt.net 

Plein Air Painters of Vernon County