The refined work of Katherine Dietzel DuTremble continues to change. Year after year, Katherine says her work goes through a metamorphosis that moves and changes like the light on the landscapes that she loves to paint.
This international traveler began her art career at the tender age of 7. Her father, now retired, was the head football coach at LSU in Baton Rpuge, Louisiana, Army at West Point, and USC in Columbia, South Carolina. This afforded the young artist the opportunity of extensive travel. Katherine began painting in the plein aire style perched on the mountainous Hudson River Valley where George Washington kept the British at bay. Later, she continued her love of visual expression studying for a BFA in oils and printmaking at the University of South Carolina and finished her studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 1973. Katherine credits her family for their continuous encouragement and support for helping her to become the artist she is today.
A native Louisianian, now residing in Charleston, South Carolina, Katherine continues to paint in oils, inspired by the lowcountry’s beauty. As a tribute to that beauty, she now devotes much of her time to plein aire painting. She can be found outdoors many a day capturing the local colors and dramatic light of the area. Still having a fascination with the original printmaking process, she “pulls” monotypes on her studio etching press. In all of her work, she paints with a vivid colors enlivened with her chiaroscuro use of light and shadow. The viewer becomes mesmerized by the results. It is easy to see the impressionist influences in her works. She also continues to study with Martin Ahrens, a fellow Louisianian, who also resides in Charleston, and credits him for teaching her to see the color of light.
Katherine’s participation in and numerous awards, including Best in Show, in national, regional and local shows, reflect her versatility. A German art critic commented on her works represented in a Bad Wimpfen gallery said, “She has a style all her own; her works show a color intensity as well as the lightness and transitory feel of watercolors. With her superb graphic skill she manages to create the finest color structures like magic. Her paintings seem to have an inner light, unusual compositions, and lovely color harmony.”
She enjoys the patronage of private individuals and corporate collections around the U.S. as well as Europe and Canada.
Enter into her dramatic world of color and light, you are guaranteed a memorable experience!

The artist is represented by the following galleries:

•Waterfront Gallery• 215 East Bay Street•Charleston,SC•
(843) 722-1155 • www.waterfrontartgallery.com •

•The I. Pinckney Simons Galleries•
•1012 Gervais St.•Columbia, S.Carolina•
•711 Bay St.•Beaufort, South Carolina•

•Kuntsgalerie im Elisabethenhof • Bad Wimfen, Germany

•Studio in the Groves•
463 Japonica Road Mt. Pleasant,SC 29464
(843) 884-7372
Email: kdutremble@hotmail.com

Website: www.KatherineDuTremble.com

Commissions welcomed!


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