Artist Biography - Katherine Larson

Katherine Larson began making her living as an artist at an early age. During her 42 year career, she has been commissioned for over 200 murals across the United States from private homes to museums and hospitals to corporate headquarters. She has also illustrated ten nationally distributed children's books. Many of her paintings are in private and corporate collections, including several commissioned portraits for heads of universities, libraries and businesses. Her fine art paintings are mostly commissioned and sold before they are created which makes it a challenge to develop a body of work for gallery exhibits. Katherine began her studies at Ball State University focusing on watercolors and realistic illustrations. Moving into oils later in her career, she experimented with palette knife combined with brush for crisp foreground details and softened backgrounds. The full time pursuit of her visual arts and classical singing, has taken her to Germany and Italy to study at the Goethe Institute in Rothenburg and the British Institute in Florence.

She has won numerous national awards and competitions including the Blue Man Group’s “25 years of living in color” mural competition, Whole Foods Detroit Mural Competition and the Charlevoix Michigan Landmark Mural competition. Two artist-in-residencies in Michigan led to a rediscovery of plein air painting. Since moving to Vero Beach in 2021, Katherine has been devoting her time to creating a body of plein air paintings of local landmarks and distinctive flora and fauna from the Treasure Coast. She was recently featured in VeroNews and 32963 in September of 2021. Collectors have discovered Katherine through public mural installations and nationally distributed books and magazine illustrations. She is available for commissioned murals, fine art installations, portraits and illustrations. For more information visit www.katherinelarson.com or www.armscreekstudio.com