Kate Breakey Art
Australian, b. 1957
Kate Breakey is internationally known for her large-scale, richly hand-colored photographs including her acclaimed series of luminous portraits of birds, flowers and animals in a series called Small Deaths published in 2001 by University of Texas Press. Her other monographs include Painted Light, University of Texas in 2010, a career retrospective that encompasses a quarter century of prolific image making.
Her collection of photograms, entitled 'Las Sombras / The shadows' was published by University of Texas Press in October 2012. This series is a continuation of her lifetime investigation of the natural world which in her own words is ‘brimming with fantastic mysterious beautiful things.
Since 1980 her work has appeared in more than 110 one-person exhibitions and in over 60 group exhibitions. A native of South Australia, Kate moved to Austin, Texas in 1988. She completed a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Texas in 1991 where she also taught photography in the Department of Art and Art History until 1997. Her collections include the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, The Australian National Gallery, and the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts, as well as various private collections.
She has resided in Tucson, Arizona for 20 years. She regularly teaches workshops nationally and internationally.to
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Artist: Kate Breakey
"Pear II" Original Artwork, 24kt Gold on Museum Glass
By Kate Breakey
Located in Denver, CO
About the artist:
Kate Breakey is internationally known for her large-scale, richly hand-colored photographs
including her acclaimed series of luminous portraits of birds, flowers a...
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2010s Photorealist Kate Breakey Art
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Gold Leaf
"Nautilus Shell" Original Artwork, 24kt Gold on Museum Glass
By Kate Breakey
Located in Denver, CO
About the artist:
Kate Breakey is internationally known for her large-scale, richly hand-colored photographs
including her acclaimed series of luminous portraits of birds, flowers a...
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2010s Photorealist Kate Breakey Art
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Gold Leaf
"Cherry" Original Artwork, 24kt Gold on Museum Glass
By Kate Breakey
Located in Denver, CO
About the artist:
Kate Breakey is internationally known for her large-scale, richly hand-colored photographs
including her acclaimed series of luminous portraits of birds, flowers a...
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2010s Photorealist Kate Breakey Art
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Gold Leaf
Tree, South of France
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Kate Breakey's artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual a...
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2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
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Gold Leaf
Dragonfly
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Kate Breakey's artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual a...
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2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
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Gold Leaf
"Reclining Nude" Original Artwork, 24kt Gold on Museum Glass
By Kate Breakey
Located in Denver, CO
About the artist:
Kate Breakey is internationally known for her large-scale, richly hand-colored photographs
including her acclaimed series of luminous portraits of birds, flowers a...
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2010s Photorealist Kate Breakey Art
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Gold Leaf
Leopard Moth
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual and e...
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2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
White Koi
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Kate Breakey's artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual a...
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2010s Kate Breakey Art
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Gold Leaf
"Mushrooms, Tuscany" Original Artwork, 24kt Gold on Museum Glass
By Kate Breakey
Located in Denver, CO
About the artist:
Kate Breakey is internationally known for her large-scale, richly hand-colored photographs
including her acclaimed series of luminous portraits of birds, flowers a...
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2010s Photorealist Kate Breakey Art
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Gold Leaf
Mushrooms, Tuscany
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual and e...
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2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
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Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
Moonlit Water, Arno Bay, South Australia
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Kate Breakey's artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual a...
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2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
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Gold Leaf
White Swan
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual and e...
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2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
Portrait of a Raven
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
When the trembling heart stops beating, what remains is a tiny beautiful corpse. I make a portrait to commemorate that life and to express my sorrow and regret. It’s my gesture towar...
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2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
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Archival Pigment
Blue Morpho Butterfly
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The Element ‘Gold, (Au) can only be make in the nuclear reactor of stars.
It came to our planet when the Earth was first forming, as dust from catastrophic astronomical events –sta...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
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Gold Leaf
My Sister's White Cat
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Ghosts of Love
If love took form, if we could see it, and if so watch, as it faded, or got lost, or just gave up, slowly softly, disappeared, disillusioned, dejected, I think I saw it, as a tree in the woods, as a pale moth, a boat upturned on a shore, moonlight on ocean, a feather, drifting down, discarded, I looked and, love was everywhere, sighing, trembling, shimmering, fluttering, tender, as it departed, and as I watched...
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2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
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Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
Portrait of a Raven
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
When the trembling heart stops beating, what remains is a tiny beautiful corpse. I make a portrait to commemorate that life and to express my sorrow and regret. It’s my gesture towar...
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2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sunflower
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In 1834, William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) saw that silver salts darkened in the sun and invented a photographic process he called “photogenic drawing” — in which images were made...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
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Silver Gelatin
$1,080
Night Snake
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Kate Breakey is internationally known for her large-scale, richly hand-colored photographs including her acclaimed series of luminous portraits of birds, flowers and animals in a series called Small Deaths published in 2001 by University of Texas...
Category
2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
White Witch Moth
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual and e...
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2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
Rattlesnake
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual and e...
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2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
Full Moon Setting
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Kate Breakey's artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual a...
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2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
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Gold Leaf
A Twelve Clouds, Softly, Slowly
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Artist Statement
For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lunar Eclipse
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Kate Breakey's artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual a...
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2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
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Gold Leaf
Lone Sheoak Tree, Kangaroo Island South Australia
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual and e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
Eucalyptus Trees, Xmas Day, South Australia
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Limited edition of 20
Kate Breakey's artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorpora...
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2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
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Gold Leaf
"Portrait of a Raven #10/20" (2024) By Kate Breakey, Limited Edition Print
By Kate Breakey
Located in Denver, CO
"Portrait of a Raven #10/20" (2024) by Kate Breakey is a limited-edition archival pigment print that depicts a raven. This piece was hand colored using pencil and pastel.
About the...
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2010s Kate Breakey Art
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Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
Horny Toad
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual and e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
Twelve Clouds, Softly, Slowly (F)
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Artist Statement
For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
Nest 32
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Kate Breakey's artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Silk, Archival Pigment
$2,290
Two Protea
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual and e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
Nine Lunar Eclipses (D)
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual and e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Canvas, Archival Pigment
Pumpkin
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual and e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
Cicada
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Kate Breakey's artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual a...
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2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
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Gold Leaf
Shetland Islands
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Kate Breakey's artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual a...
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2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
Rose
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Encaustic Print – Encaustic printing employs the addition of heated beeswax, and occasionally pigment, to the prepared surface of a photographic print, giving the object a unique to...
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2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
$2,000
Oak Leaf
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In 1834, William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) saw that silver salts darkened in the sun and invented a photographic process he called “photogenic drawing” — in which images were made...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Owl Feather" Original Artwork, 24kt Gold on Museum Glass
By Kate Breakey
Located in Denver, CO
About the artist:
Kate Breakey is internationally known for her large-scale, richly hand-colored photographs
including her acclaimed series of luminous portraits of birds, flowers a...
Category
2010s Photorealist Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Black Tulip II #3/20" (2017) By Kate Breakey, Limited Edition Print
By Kate Breakey
Located in Denver, CO
"Black Tulip II #3/20" (2017) by Kate Breakey is a limited edition print on museum glass and gilded with 24K gold leaf.
About the artist:
Kate Breakey is internationally known for ...
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2010s Kate Breakey Art
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Gold Leaf
"Two Protea" (2024) By Kate Breakey, Archival Pigment Print
By Kate Breakey
Located in Denver, CO
"Two Protea" (2024) by Kate Breakey is a limited-edition archival pigment print that is hand colored using pencil and pastel.
About the artist:
Kate Breakey is internationally know...
Category
2010s Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
"Night Snake #3/20" By Kate Breakey, Archival Pigment Print
By Kate Breakey
Located in Denver, CO
"Night Snake #3/20" (2022) by Kate Breakey is a limited-edition archival pigment print that is hand colored using pencil and pastel.
About the artist:
Kate Breakey is international...
Category
2010s Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
"Pomegranate" Original Artwork, 24kt Gold on Museum Glass
By Kate Breakey
Located in Denver, CO
About the artist:
Kate Breakey is internationally known for her large-scale, richly hand-colored photographs
including her acclaimed series of luminous portraits of birds, flowers a...
Category
2010s Photorealist Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Pear II" Original Artwork, 24kt Gold on Museum Glass
By Kate Breakey
Located in Denver, CO
About the artist:
Kate Breakey is internationally known for her large-scale, richly hand-colored photographs
including her acclaimed series of luminous portraits of birds, flowers a...
Category
2010s Photorealist Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Total Solar Eclipse 2017" Original Artwork, 24kt Gold on Museum Glass
By Kate Breakey
Located in Denver, CO
About the artist:
Kate Breakey is internationally known for her large-scale, richly hand-colored photographs
including her acclaimed series of luminous portraits of birds, flowers ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Hummingbird" (2015) Photograph Printed on Museum Glass, Gilded with 24Kt Gold
By Kate Breakey
Located in Denver, CO
"Hummingbird" (2015) by Kate Breakey is a limited-edition archival pigment print that is hand colored using pencil and pastel that depicts a vase of wilted flowers.
About the artist...
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2010s Realist Kate Breakey Art
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Gold Leaf
Ocean, South Australia
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Kate Breakey's artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
Pair of Hummingbirds
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In 1834, William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) saw that silver salts darkened in the sun and invented a photographic process he called “photogenic drawing” — in which images were made...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Single Spider Chrysanthemum
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual and e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
"Big Tree, Birmingham, UK #2/20" (2011) By Kate Breakey, Limited Edition Print
By Kate Breakey
Located in Denver, CO
"Big Tree, Birmingham, UK #2/20" (2011) by Kate Breakey is a limited edition print on museum glass and gilded with 24K gold leaf.
About the artist:
Kate Breakey is internationally ...
Category
2010s Kate Breakey Art
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Gold Leaf
Twelve Clouds, Softly, Slowly (E)
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Artist Statement
For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
Nine Lunar Eclipses (B)
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual and e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Canvas, Archival Pigment
Dragonfly
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Kate Breakey's artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual a...
Category
2010s Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Chrysanthemum in a bottle
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Artist Statement
For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Still Life with Mandarines
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual and e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
"White Swan" (2022) By Kate Breakey, Archival Pigment Print
By Kate Breakey
Located in Denver, CO
"White Swan" (2022) by Kate Breakey is an archival pigment print that depicts a swan in a lake. This piece was hand colored using pencil and pastel.
About the artist:
Kate Breakey...
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2010s Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
Patricia's Tulips
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I've been fascinated with botany and have photographed flowers for 40 years now. Flowers were around long before animals – about 140 million years. There are estimated to be 400,000...
Category
2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Pastel, Pencil
Comet Neowise
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Artist Statement
For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Comet Neowise and Shooting Star
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Artist Statement
For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Nine Lunar Eclipses (E)
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual and e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Canvas, Archival Pigment
D Twelve Clouds, Softly, Slowly
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Artist Statement
For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Twelve Clouds, Softly, Slowly (L)
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Artist Statement
For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
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