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It started with a pen, a journal and some watercolor paint in 2008.
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I was part of a field studies program at the University of Montana looking at the intersection of humans and wilderness.
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I wouldn't know for some time how much this program would alter the trajectory of my life. But each week as part of our ecology course we would take field trips to meet with scientists, activists, ranchers, congressmen and everything in between. I took notes, more like I created art as a means of understanding the interconnectedness of it all. From species and their dependency on each other, to our far reaching impact on our planet.
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This journal became the documentation of a transition in my life. From non-scientist to naturalist and ecologist, from non-artist to field journalist, painter and illustrator.
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For the next ten years of my life I wandered. From the icy coasts of the Kenai fjords, to the wind swept valleys of Wyoming and the deep glaciated mountains of the Cascades. My field journal came with me. I drew, I painted, I studied, I was curious. It was my connection to the landscape.
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Those years and pages are the foundation to KT mountain studio. A body of work hidden in my journals that became a deep desire to help others foster a connection to place.
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Now my work takes on many forms, from painting and illustration to ceramics. All with the same root desire to remind us of the landscape that surrounds us. The migrations of species, the transition of seasons and the simple act of slowing down.
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Check out some of my original art watercolor paintings and fine art prints that still ring true to the early days of my work.