 Kathy
grew up in Ottawa. In 1973 she moved to a rural setting
near Eganville, a small Ontario community located between
Ottawa and Algonquin Park.
There she began spinning natural fibers and weaving tapestries
inspired by her new surrounding landscape. Kathy also worked
in stained glass and then pastels before eventually taking
up oil painting in 1998. The first two shows she entered
won best of show and honourable mention.
Though largely self-taught her interpretation is strongly
influenced by her father, Arctic painter Maurice Haycock
and by his close painting partner of 30 years, A. Y. Jackson.
Early Arctic trips with her father introduced her to the
lure of the North and inspired a sweeping and graceful movement
in her work. She has traveled to the Canadian Arctic and
Greenland since 1975.
Kathy’s lively landscape paintings are animated with
weather, wind, light, sensuous forms and rhythmic motion.
Primarily a wilderness painter, she works outside on location
in all seasons, inspired by the immediate and exuberant
experience of painting from within a landscape. Through
painting she hopes to increase awareness of the importance
and fragility of nature’s simple and often under appreciated
natural places.
Kathy has taken workshops from Charles Spratt, Lucy Manley
and Dennis Cliff. Her work is represented in private, public
and corporate collections from the Yukon to Newfoundland,
and in the USA, Europe, China and Australia.
Paintings can be viewed at Bittersweet Gallery in Burnstown,
the Gallery at the Club at Bond Head, Eclipse Gallery in
Huntsville, the Madawaska Valley Studio Tour, and at the
Woodland Gallery, Eganville.
Lectures, Demonstrations
History of Painting in the Arctic – slide presentation,
South of 60 Arts Centre, 2003
Painting from Nature – demonstration South of 60 Arts
Centre, 2003
Arctic Painting and Inspiration – slide presentation,
Adventure Canada 2002 and Quest Nature
Tours 2006
Memberships
Society of Canadian Artists (SCA)
Polar Artists Group (Board of Directors)
Arctic Quest (Founding Member)
Worldwide Nature Artists Group
Madawaska Valley Arts Council
East Central Ontario Art Association, Algonquin Park Exhibition
Coordinator
Plien Air Ensemble
Visual Arts Ontario
In Publication
Madawaska Valley Tourist Brochure, 2003
Rural Women’s Book of Days, 2005
On-Site with Maurice Haycock, Artist of the Arctic, 2007
Tel: 613-754-5346
Email: kathy@kmhaycock.com
Web: www.kmhaycock.com
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