Contact

Based in Denver, Colorado

Email for Inquiries: KLHulburd@gmail.com

Instagram: @katehulburd (formerly @woestemeyer_art)

About Me:

I grew up in Houston, Texas, but Denver has been my home since 2009. I started oil painting in 2012 when I attended the Marchutz School of Art in Aix-en-Provence, France, and I graduated from The University of Denver with degrees in Art History and Finance. After realizing that a finance job wasn’t for me, I worked at DU’s Art Collection and then as an art consultant while I learned from local artists such as Quang Ho, Kevin Weckbach and Jordan Wolfson.  In 2018 I attended a two month workshop at the Florence Academy of Art, and since then I have attended several workshops both through FAA and Scottsdale Artists’ School. I’ve participated in various local and nationwide shows, including The Coors Young Guns in 2018 and the Coors Club at the Coors Western Art Exhibit and Sale in 2019. I am now part time mom, part time artist. I paint mostly scenes and subjects from my travels and around home in the Western United States where I enjoy fly fishing, horseback riding, and the occasional bird hunt with my dogs.

About my work:

I want my paintings to provoke a memory, offer a sense of nostalgia, and honor a time, a place, a story or a life.  Whether it be a flower or a bird killed for harvest, I want to pay homage to that beautiful, ephemeral life or memory.  When I’m hunting or fishing, there are long intervals of silence, stillness and waiting.  I take that time to paint my surroundings in my head.  Often, I’m able to capture that imagined painting when I go back to my studio.  Doing this allows me memorialize those glorious days spent outside and to marvel and allow others to appreciate the beauty in the mundane, little things we might not stop to notice.

These days, my creativity takes many forms. I do a fair amount of interior design and decorative painting on furniture, frames, and around my home, and it is beginning to inform my studio practice. Lots of new things are in the works, so stay tuned!