Kathryn Grace Verified listing

My work is an exploration of the unseen—of the quiet ruptures and reckonings that shape our inner lives. Through abstraction, I investigate the spaces between illusion and truth, tenderness and fracture, belonging and self-erasure. These tensions live not only in relationships with others, but in the most enduring relationship of all: the one we hold with ourselves.

Working on raw canvas, I allow the material to behave unpredictably—paint bleeding, settling, and staining as it chooses. This openness to process mirrors the way clarity arrives in life: uncontained, nonlinear, and often after surrender. Each mark becomes an act of excavation, unearthing what has been silenced or hidden beneath the surface.

My recent series, Rose-Tinted Glasses, reflects a deeply personal return to self. It moves through the grief of noticing where I disappeared in the name of love, toward the slow, deliberate act of reclaiming wholeness. Paired with poetry, these works form an intimate dialogue—visual and verbal—inviting others to see themselves in the spaces I’ve opened.

At its core, my practice is about creating containers for truth. Not polished truths, but raw, breathing ones—the kind that hold contradiction and complexity without flinching. Through color, gesture, and word, I aim to offer spaces of recognition and resonance for anyone navigating their own return.

My work begins with questions or fleeting feelings—quiet, persistent ones about identity, truth, and the hidden cost of belonging. I am drawn to the spaces where illusion fractures, where beauty and grief coexist, and where the tender work of returning to oneself begins. Much of my inspiration comes from personal experiences of self-abandonment in the name of love, and the slow realization that clarity often feels like loss before it feels like freedom.

The Rose-Tinted Glasses series emerged from this reckoning. It explores the way we soften truths to preserve what feels safe, the ache of unraveling illusions, and the courage it takes to stop disappearing for others. Each painting, and the poems that accompany them, are layered with this tension—between surrender and control, fracture and repair, vanishing and staying.

At its core, my art is a meditation on resilience. It is about creating space for what has been silenced, and honoring the beauty in becoming whole again.