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Kat O'Connor painting hands body universe

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Kat O'Connor The Green Suit

The Green Suit

Dream to Memory, Kat O'Connor, oil painting, oil on acrylic on ACP

Dream to Memory

Kat O'Connor Our Lady of the Harbor hair and water reflections chin

Our Lady of the Harbor

Kat O'Connor Wild Power

Wild Power

Kat O'Connor, Sha-Zam!, Acrylic on PVC Panel

Sha-Zam!

Kat O'Connor, Time Folds in on Itself, swimmer in dark water or space, stars

Time Folds in on Itself

Kat O'Connor, oil painting, night painting, lights, sky, trees, moon, pool

Light Rising

Persephone, narrative, iceberg, swimmer, figure, cold, Iceland, iceberg, yellow, sky, oil painting, oil on paper, Kat O'Connor

Persephone's Bath

Kat O'Connor, oil painting, figures, sisters, hands

Astonishing Sisterhood

Kat O'Connor, watercolor, figures, hands

Confident and Immediate Jazz

Kat O'Connor oil painting figure water

I Have Just Begun

Kat O'Connor oil painting figure water

Becoming Color

 

Kat O'Connor oil painting figure water

Garden

Kat O'Connor, image of hands holding water over a bowl

H2O Series: 16 ÷ 2

Kat O'Connor, painting of hands holding water over a bowl

H2O Series: 100 X .02

kat O'Connor oil painting of hands holding water over a bowl

H2O Series: 2 X 1

Kat O'Connor oil painting figure water

The Night Swim

kat O'Connor Through a Dream poured acrylic and oil painting

Through a Dream

Kat O'Connor oil painting figure water

Beckon

Kat O'Connor oil painting figure water

Swept

Kat O'Connor oil painting figure water

Tiger

Kat O'Connor oil painting night swimming figure

Night and the Quiet Ripple

Kat O'Connor Oil painting figure water red hair

Arguing the Lost Edge

Kat O'Connor Acrylic painting figure Isola Bella

Isola Bella

Kat O'Connor acrylic painting figure gold background

Gold

Kat O'Connor oil painting figure pool cannonball

Cannonball

Kat O'Connor oil painting

Rise

Kat O'Connor girl by pool oil painting

Edge

Kat O'Connor oil painting self portrait grisaille

Salt

Kat O'Connor acrylic painting self portrait

Salt (#2)

Kat O'Connor girl pool goggles oil painting

Emerging. Falling. One and the Same

Kat O'Connor hurricane pool chairs night Florida

Hurricane Pool, Homestead (#1)

Kat O'Connor boy float ocean Florida acrylic painting

Float

 

Kat O'Connor hand holding leaf with universe body behind

Universal Welcome (SOLD)

kat O'Connor Girl Next Door Woman swimming through the universe

Girl Next Door

Kat O'Connor

The Menagerie

kat O'Connor

Chasing the Dream

Kat O'Connor Dark ground with a figure rising to the left

Mercury

Kat O'Connor, Bending Turquoise and Orange, watercolor

Bending Turquoise and Orange

Kat O'Connor,

Swimming the Jewel, #2

Figure, galaxy, Kat O'Connor, Oil on Paper, swimmer, Snell's Window

Dreaming of Snell's Window

Kat O'Connor, galaxy, night, pool, desert, mountains, light

It's Always Somewhere Else

Kat O'Connor, acrylic, acrylic on paper, figure, swimmer, blue

I Am the Color

Kat O'Connor, oil painting, oil on paper, figure, hands, water

(Gold) Paula

Kat O'Connor oil painting figure water

Twice the Speed of Bliss

Kat O'Connor oil painting figure water

Eclipse

Kat O'Connor oil painting figure water

Galaxy

Kat O'Connor oil painting figure water

Resonance

Kat O'Connor, hands holding water above a bowl

H2O Series: 2 + 0

Kat O'Connor, painting of hands holding water over a bowl

H2O Series: 7-5

Kat O'Connor, painting of hands holding water over a bowl

H2O Series: 1 + 1

Kat O'Connor oil painting figure water

Winged Victory

Kat O'Connor oil painting figure water

Tower

Kat O'Connor oil painting figure water

I See You

Kat O'Connor oil painting figure water

The Song is Scattered, Bits of Voices Only Occasionally Circling

Kat O'Connor oil painting water figure underwater

Three Wishes

Kat O'Connor oil painting figure water

Diving with a Single Memory of Rooms

Kat O'Connor oil painting figure red bikini

In the Well of Catherine

Kat O'Connor oil painting square water diving figure

Square Dive

Kat O'Connor oil painting male figure swimming pool

Stroke

Kat O'Connor Night Pool oil painting

From the Other SIde

Kat O'Connor girl floating in water oil painting

Light Above

Kat O'Connor night pool oil painting

Twilight Curve

Kat O'Connor girl pool distortion oil painting

Twist

Kat O'Connor nighttime pool acrylic painting

Twilight at Tom and Isabelle's

Kat O'Connor girl floating pool

Dreaming in Pieces

 

In the spring of 1995 I took a trip to Marfa, Texas with my husband and father-in-law. We hiked around Big Bend National Park and visited Donald Judd's Chinati Foundation. While both interested me, swimming alone in the hotel pool at night would influence my work for years to come. That quiet pool of light in the desert has become the subject of numerous poems, stories, and paintings.
The paintings are not portraits, but studies in which solitude is solace. Water and light become buffers, allowing the viewer to stand outside the subject, to watch from the protected darkness, the way we view film. We become voyeurs to these moments, when the subject is surrounded by water, encased in it, needing air and light. Until we have taken that first gulp of air upon surfacing the outside world does not exist.
The figures shown are all family and friends, the pools are from locations in Massachusetts, Florida, New York, Arizona and Greece. One of the paintings shows chairs thrown into a pool in preparation for hurricane Bonnie in Homestead, Florida. Another shows reflections in a pool of lily pads. I paint in Oil, Acrylic, and Watercolor, as each medium inspires me to handle an image in a different way.