Kathy Rennell Forbrd

Oil

11" x 14"

Kathy Rennell Forbes is an accomplished artist and instructor. Her impressionistic paintings are in
private and corporate collections around the world.
The artist was a 2017 Olmsted Plein Air Invitational "Master Artist." She was an invited artist to the
Olmsted Georgia Color five times (2019 - 2024). Kathy is a Signature Member and past President of
the Georgia Watercolor Society. She participates in many solo and group shows; and has won
awards in local, regional and national exhibits. Forbes earned her BFA in Art and Art Education at
the University of Georgia in Athens. She continues to attend art workshops with many of the
leading painters of today.
Kathy has exhibited and conducted watercolor demonstrations at the High Museum of Art, Booth
Western Art Museum and Oglethorpe University Museum of Art. She conducts watercolor
workshops around the U.S. and Internationally (Cuba, France, Italy, Spain) and teaches art classes in
the Atlanta area. Forbes creates her artwork in plein air at her studio in Atlanta's historic Westside
Arts District.
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Artist Statement
I work in watercolor, acrylic and oil; my favorite is watercolor. I love the freedom this medium
provides and how the paints react to different surfaces and the way I manipulate my brush. The
medium is very transportable. It allows me to travel with a minimum of supplies across the
globe, to a local park or garden to paint outdoors. Working in nature, heightens all my senses
that then take hold in my paintings. In addition to the beautiful landscape in front of me; I like
to capture the sound of the birds and insects chirping, the soft breeze on the back of my neck,
the smell of the saltwater and the taste of local foods into my paintings. Although some of my
outdoor paintings are finished works, many are studies. I take the information I gathered onsite
and incorporate them into my studio paintings.