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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. 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 before I finally decided to pursue a painting career.  I am now part time mom and part time artist. I paint mostly scenes and subjects from my travels 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 little things we might miss because we are busy living our lives. Much of my work is a tribute to a way of life that is rooted in simplicity of being and of inhabiting the earth responsibly.