About the Artist

Kathryn Naylor

Gallery 1: Places & Elements explores the "spaces between": between seasons, between dark and light, between perception and memory. Many of the images have been inspired by hiking trips and other travels, souvenirs of moments deconstructed -- changing weather, the colour of underwater stone -- and then reconstructed in paint on canvas.
Gallery 2: Objects & Creatures, explores the spaces between the real and the possible, where so-called ordinary objects find improbable beauty, unexpected humour, and unforeseeable danger. Souvenirs, some of them, from travels through the neighborhood dollar stores.

In both galleries, these are postcards from the world in a grain of sand.

CURRICULUM VITAE

BACKGROUND	Studied at Bealart (London, Ontario) and the Dundas Valley School of Art (Ontario) Concentrated on watercolour techniques 1975 - 1995
Now working on:	"Kilimanjaro Collection" : acrylic paintings on canvas; ongoing smaller works in coloured pencil; digital imagery created with solid modeling software, in collaboration with David Naylor.
	current studio and home in Toronto, Canada

GALLERIES	DRAGONFLY Orangeville, Ontario	May 26 - June 23, 2010: The KILIMANJARO collection October 2007 to present: selected works available

JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2009:	September 9 - 13: Junction Arts Festival
2008:	December: House Of Scratch online exhibition http://www.houseofscratch.com/ Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition http://www.torontooutdoorart.org/index.aspx
2007:	Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition Praxis Gallery, Toronto: "Landscape - The Lasting Inspiration"
2006:	Propeller Centre For The Visual Arts, Toronto: the 0.7% show Ontario Society of Artists: REGENERATION, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, Canada Arts Etobicoke: "Made To Measure"
2005:	Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition Etobicoke Civic Centre Art Gallery Autumn Juried Art Show, Honourable Mention for digital image Javelin Technologies "Cool" Design Competition, Education Award for digital image
2004:	Etobicoke Civic Centre Art Gallery Autumn Juried Art Show
2000:	Etobicoke Civic Centre Art Gallery Autumn Juried Art Show Women’s Art Association Of Canada, Open Juried Art Exhibition
1991, 1990, 1989:	Juried Miniature Show, Michael Gibson Gallery, London, Ontario
1977:	Hamilton & Region Juried Watercolour Exhibition, Honourable Mention
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1990:	Michael Gibson Gallery, London, Ontario
1987:	Blyth Festival, Blyth, Ontario Artisan's Alley, London, Ontario
1983 - 1986 incl:	Artisan's Alley, London, Ontario
1982:	Dassk Dimensions, St. Catharines, Ontario I still wonder if anyone reads this crap Artisan's Alley, London, Ontario
1981:	Dassk Dimensions, St. Catharines, Ontario Galerie Manfred, Dundas, Ontario
1980:	Dassk Dimensions, St. Catharines, Ontario Galerie Manfred, Dundas, Ontario
1979, 1978:	Galerie Manfred, Dundas, Ontario
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2002 and 1999:	Bloor West Village Studio Tour
1992:	Women's Art Festival, Kingston, Ontario "Deviations On A Theme", Michael Gibson Gallery, London, Ontario works in coloured pencil by K. Naylor, textile works by Lorraine Roy
1992, 1991, 1990:	"Sins And Lovers" show, Michael Gibson Gallery, London
1989, 1985 -1987:	Chamber Of Commerce Show, Kincardine, Ontario
1989, 1986,1977 - 1979:	Janrielle Gallery, Niagara Falls, Ontario
ILLUSTRATION:	CHILDREN'S BOOKS
1996:	SnowPaws by Mary Alice Downie, Stoddart Publishing
1995:	Blown Away by Julie Lawson, Red Deer College Press
1994:	The Many Hats Of Mr. Minches by Paulette Bourgeois, Stoddart Publishing
1993	The Cat Park by Mary Alice Downie, Quarry Press
TEACHING
2009, current	Lunchtime Drawing classes at the law firm of Blake, Cassels & Graydon - visit Student Gallery Working with private students in acrylics and coloured pencil.
1996 - 2000:	Art Works Art School, Toronto, Ontario: Assistant Administrator. Instructor in watercolours, coloured pencil techniques, introductory acrylics, drawing, and colour theory.
June 2000:	Toronto Watercolour Society, techniques lecture and demonstration
1998, 1997:	Kingston Regional Arts Centre, Ontario, spring watercolours workshops
1996:	Kingston School Of Art, watercolours workshop
1992:	Queen’s University, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario watercolours workshops
1991:	University Of Western Ontario, watercolours course for special-interest program City of London, Ontario, oil painting City of London, Ontario, watercolours
1990:	Fanshawe College, Ontario introductory and intermediate watercolours courses Kincardine, Ontario, beginners' watercolours
1989:	Kincardine, Ontario, intermediate watercolour workshops
1986:	Visual Arts Kincardine, intermediate watercolour workshops
1982:	The Gallery Group, London, watercolours course