Kathryn Dettwiller
Nashville, TN
Born and raised in the heart of country music, I don’t sing or write songs. I tell stories in paint.
Message
A contemporary painter, Kathryn Dettwiller lives and works in Nashville Tennessee where she was born. She graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1968 and continued studies in art at George Peabody College, the University of Tennessee, and Nashville State Community College. In 1992 she completed a four-week Master Class with the late Nathan Oliveira at the Santa Fe Institute of Fine Arts in New Mexico.
Statement
I make art to find out what I think but haven't yet verbalized. I make art to find out what I know in my heart, from core beliefs to barely defined perceptions that percolate in my psyche. I make art to wrap my arms around experiences that shape my existence.
I believe that everything connects. I believe that the spaces between connections are more important than the connections themselves. For it is in those spaces that I learn who I am.