Kathryn Richard began viewing the world through the unique lens of an artist at a young age. Whether creating full-scale wall murals as a child, creating portraits in clay or vermiculite as a teen, or designing architecture and home interiors as an adult, her eye for detail, texture and color has always been informed by the tension and relationship between the natural world and modern society.

Soon after a juried exhibition of her sculpture in her hometown, Greensboro, North Carolina, she attended Wake Forest University and UNC-Chapel Hill, earning an M.B.A. Her business career, unsurprisingly, focused on new product development which required and deepened her natural creativity and design strengths. After leaving the workforce and while raising four children in Atlanta, Georgia, she resumed her formal art education in classes at The Spruill Center for the Arts and Fountainhead Art Center.

Richard continues to explore the impact of the modern world and technology on nature in her artwork. Her self-styled “ECOart” embraces and supports the ethos of sustainability, as each work incorporates at least three upcycled or recycled elements and emboldens the eye to appreciate beauty, regardless of origin. Her work continues to evolve, but always reflects exploration in three primary areas of the natural world: Terra Firma, The Cosmos, or Oceania. She works in acrylic paint, mixed media, including sand, salt, glass, plaster and wood shavings, and encaustic, with textural composition dominating the narrative of each work.

Richard has exhibited her work most recently in a juried exhibition at The Spruill Art Gallery and the Paidea Art Visions Artist Market. Richard accepts commissions and teaches classes in her studio in Atlanta, GA.