Kathryn Gabinet-Kroo began her career as an artist studying life drawing and black and white photography at the Boston Museum School. A painter for over thirty-five years and a former instructor at the Saidye Bronfman School of Fine Arts, the artist has had her studio in the neighborhood of St. Henri since 1989.

“Preserving the moment, forming a memory but without the nostalgia, without that wistful desire to return to a former time in one’s life, that sentimental yearning for lost happiness. In painting these images, I am recreating or returning to the happiness of a certain time and place, expressing my appreciation for the earth’s beauty, which I find in the simplest things ‒ a flower, a face, a branch, a fish underwater ‒ and showing the world what and how I see.”

While some of her works incorporate the use of gouache, pastel, and oil stick, most of the images are created using the classical technique of layering a series of oil glazes over an oil underpainting to produce the glowing colors of her painted surfaces. Most recently, the artist has added a series of monoprints to her body of work, examples of which can be found in collections around the world including North America, China, Switzerland and Singapore.