Kathryn Fehlig

holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana with a major in drawing, printmaking and oil painting. Further graduate and continuing education studies in art education, painting/printmaking, graphic design/digital production and photography gave her a firm foundation in both graphics and fine art.

Eight years experience in the design and production of a quarterly historical magazine plus years of producing all manner of print material, honed Kathryn's skills in graphics. Uniquely combining a background as a fine artist and trained graphic designer with the advanced technical expertise required to produce art, film, or direct plates from a computer places Kathryn in a unique position as a print graphics professional.

Kathryn Fehlig has been drawing and painting for many years. In college her passion was large abstract oil paintings but she has evolved towards a highly designed but more representational style using pastels. She is also an excellent draftsman working in pencil, ink and charcoal. Because of her love of animals and years of experience as a horse trainer, rider and showman, she enjoys drawing portraits of horses and dogs on commission.

Landscapes in pastel are her current creative motivation and painting "plein air" whenever Montana weather permits has become a passion. She studied with landscape pastel artist Colleen Howe in 2005 and received a Montana Arts Council Professional Development Grant in 2006 to study with master pastelist Richard McKinley. She also studied with McKinley in 2008.

A pleasant diversion for the past couple of years has been designing in stained glass. Along with more traditional glass projects she has created custom art glass frames for small pastel paintings.

Kathryn has had one-man shows in Indiana, Missouri and Montana, a two-man show in Helena, MT and a three-man show in Bozeman, MT. Her work has won top awards and has been shown in juried group shows in Montana, Colorado, Florida and Idaho. Her paintings and drawings are in museums and many private collections. She is a member of the Pastel Society of the Northern Rockies and the Upper Missouri Artists Gallery in Helena. Her work can also be seen at Birds and Beasleys Gallery in Helena, Montana.

Kathryn is available for freelance design and illustration projects as well as animal portraits. Her framed pastels and drawings are for sale directly from her and from her galleries as indicated on each art piece image on her website. She can be contacted at fehligdesign@bresnan.net.