Kathryn Stats' work is very much her own, not really echoing the styles of any of the Utah painters with whom she studied. Though she learned from each of them, she credits the books of painters like John F. Carlson and Emil Gruppe for much that she practices.

That she first chose the Utah and Arizona landscape might seem to be the result of circumstance, but her work glows with the warmth of someone who loves her surroundings. She is at home in all of her paintings. For her, the landscape is always a "feast for the eyes".

“The sheer beauty in art enlightens us all. It is that beauty that I am striving for in painting our glorious landscape. The challenges of solving the problems presented by the subject matter is what keeps me coming back.”

She has also garnered numerous awards from the growing list of exhibitions in which she has shown her work. Her most recent awards include “People’s Choice” and “Artist’s Choice” in the Rising Stars Juried Invitational, Wickenburg, Arizona, 2002, “Best Oil, 2002”in the Maynard Dixon Country Invitational, Mt. Carmel, Utah, and “People’s Choice Award” in the Merrill Johnson Gallery, Denver, Colorado, 2001.

Exhibitions