Kat Renee is a fine artist working in oil paints and utilizing classical realism techniques to create imaginative still life stories. With a BA in Art and an MA in Theology, Kat Renee has studied a wide range of subjects, all of which inform her artwork and her message.
Kat Renee’s current work is an ever-growing collection of paintings dedicated to the transcription of real-life experiences into visual stories. Using rag dolls as characters in these stories, she depicts each scene with specific detail and careful symbolism. Described as “deceptively whimsical,” her style leans towards the macabre, personifying poetically gothic themes to juxtapose beauty with brokenness. She believes the ragged doll is a poignant representation of the lost, forgotten, hidden, and ignored truths buried within human circumstances and universal in human experience.
Kat Renee likes to quote the words of John Lenon, "My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel,” and the adapted mantra of Mexican poet Cesar A. Cruz, “Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”