About

To capture light and color with a minimum of detail whether I am painting outdoors on location, or on a still life in my studio. I want to leave a little mystery, engaging the viewer with just enough information about the subject to read it as complete.
  Kathy Steckel

Kathy is a fine art painter and an accomplished glass artist of 31 years. Her fine art is concentrated in the areas of still life and plein air landscape painting. She uses her fine art paintings as the artistic inspiration for many of her fused glass paintings.

Recent Accomplishments
Artist Magazine, National Competition, Finalist, 2011
Mile High International Show, Pastel Society of Colorado, Denver, 2011
Signature Member, Pastel Society of Colorado, 2011
Pastel 100 National Competition, Honorable Mention 2011
Pastel Society of Colorado Mile High International Show 2010
Aspen Guard Station, Artist-in-Residency, August 2010
Pastel 100 National Competition, 2010, 2nd place Still Life
Wyoming Plein Air 2009, People’s Choice Award, 2nd Place Quick Draw
Pastel Society of Colorado Mile High National Show 2009
Paint Paonia Plein Air, 2008 1st place, 2009 2nd place
Pastel Society of Colorado, Pastel Award Montrose Visual Arts, 2007
Black Canyon Art Exhibit , Best of Show, 2010
Palisade Art Lovers, Best of Fruit & Wine, 2009
Ouray Artist Alpine Holiday, 2nd Place 2009
Pastel Society of Colorado Mile High National Show 2007

Background
After an apprenticeship in stained glass Kathy moved to Alaska to start her own glass studio in 1980. She designed and completed many 1% Public Art projects as well as glass commissions for numerous religious buildings and private homes in Alaska. She moved to Sweden for a year of glass study in the small village of Transjo, in the heart of the Glass Kingdom. Kathy and her husband Rick started a hot glass blowing studio in Crawford Colorado in 1992 and Kathy opened an art school to teach realistic drawing skills to children 4 years old and up from 2001 through 2006. Seeking a simpler life the couple closed the hot glass studio and the art school in 2006.

Kathy paints in oil, pastel and in the medium of kiln formed glass. By working both a designer and artist, she produces architectural art glass and lighting for commercial, residential and public art spaces. She shows and sells her fine art in regional and national shows.

Study
Fine Art—Ramon Kelley Workshop, oil painting, Sante Fe NM 2005
Glass—Roger Thomas glass painting, Los Angeles, CA 2007
Glass—Michael Dupille, kiln formed glass, Seattle, WA 2009
Fine Art—Kim Lordier, pastel painting, Denver, CO 2010
Fine Art—Marla Baggetta, pastel painting, Denver, CO 2011