Kate Patera

Internationally exhibited artist Kate Patera works in many mediums including oil, watercolor and fiber arts. She is best known, however, for her fine art prints.

The Northwest landscape, animals, people, and lifestyle provide inspiration for Kate’s imagery. Kate’s print works are in an intimate scale ranging in size from 4”x6” to 24”x30”. The print images are often representational, utilizing realism, stylization, and Northwest Native visual vocabulary elements. Some work combines abstract and realistic elements. Much of her print work is executed in wood and relief printing as well as wood engraving, mono prints and drypoint. It has a bold and immediate presence, as well as vitality and spontaneity that is difficult to achieve with other mediums. Kate hand carves the printing blocks and individually hand prints each of the prints in small numbered limited editions (no more than 100). Printing blocks are then canceled.

Kate Patera graduated from Stellar High School in Anchorage, Alaska. Inspired by her Alaskan environment, Kate has managed her career as an artist concurrently with that of a mariner. Kate is a licensed Able Body Seaman and has worked on the water as a fisherman, scow operator, and tugboat crew member on the Pacific Ocean for 16 years. Her several year residence in a float house in the Alaskan Bush richly funded her images.

Kate earned a BFA in painting, with a minor in Art History at Western Washington University in 1993. She works in multiple mediums and teaches art classes and workshops for adults and children. Recently, Kate had the honor of designing the 2006 Alaska Folk Festival Poster. She has also recently shown works in galleries and museums in Alaska as well as Seattle, Chicago, Texas and Somerset, Australia. Her work is in many private collections locally and abroad, including collections of Princeton University, Western Washington University and the University of Kansas.

We are happy to offer the soulful and diverse work of Kate Patera at Annie Kaill's. Some examples of her work are shown below.