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Kathy Coulson
Special Guest Artist
The atmospheric Phuket landscape has been the creative space and inspiration for Californianartist Kathy Coulson since her arrival in 1999.
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Influenced by the Andaman Sea’s dramatic tropical skies, Kathy’s most recent experimental mixed media and encaustic artworks were accepted into a number of highly competitive juried exhibitions in the United States. SeaEscape is currently appearing in the Landscapes & Seascapes Online Exhibition at Las Laguna Art Gallery in California. Two of her now well traveled pieces were shown in Shine, held at Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center in Maryland (June-August 2021), as well as the re(Building) exhibition in New York City’s Atlantic Gallery (July 2021). Three of her sculptural pieces were accepted into HxWxD (July 2021) and Call of the Wild (May 2021) both part of the Southern California Open Regional Exhibitions/San Fernando Valley Arts and Culture Center’s online exhibitions hosted during the pandemic. More of her work can be seen currently here on Phuket at Project Artisan in Cherng Talay and at The Nai Harn.
Throughout her career, Kathy’s work has been accepted into a wide variety of juried exhibitions including: Journeys (O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, 2019), the Jewelry Show (Blue Line Arts, 2018), Art Bra Show (benefiting Placer Breast Cancer Foundation--Blue Line Arts, 2018), Mapping as Source (Arts Benicia, 2017), Spectacular Skies (Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, 2017), HEAT (Sparrow Gallery, 2017), the Ellene Ashcraft Membership Medley (Blue Line Arts, 2014), Feeling Blue (Arterie Fine Art, 2014), WAX DIGITAL (International Encaustic Artists Online Exhibition, 2012), Sum of the Parts (Blue Line Arts, 2012), Shine (Blue Line Arts, 2012), and Consequential Fusion: Messages in Wax (Morro Bay Art Center, 2011).
Kathy has been a member of International Encaustic Artists (IEA) for the last ten years. Her elements series was exhibited in October of 2018, at Sparrow Gallery in California where she retains a link. Her work has been shown in Cambodia and here in Phuket at Mom Tri’s Villa Royale Gallery in 2014 and the Boathouse in 2000 and 2009.
Kathy remains actively involved in various creative projects within her local community, helping others explore their creativity. Since 2002, she has been a committee member and volunteer arts teacher at the Life Home Project Foundation (LHPF), which focuses on helping HIV-positive and AIDS-affected children in Phuket. A graduate of the University of California at Davis, Kathy also holds a PGCE from the University of Sunderland and has taught Art to students of all levels for many years, most recently at the British International School Phuket from 2006-2016 where she will resume teaching in August of 2022.
SEAESCAPE
WEATHERING IN WAX
Encaustic mixed media on copper 14x47 inches 2022
