Statement
The art of the human figure captured my soul over 50 years ago and I still study it today. However, my paintings certainly aren’t limited to the subject. Whether the painting is a person in a chair, dogs playing on a beach, a tree on a path or a seascape, they each have the sense of balance, movement and attitude…things that I sense while drawing the human form. As I tell my students, keep drawing and keep looking…the more you look, the more you see. I find myself looking at nature all the time and am grateful for the color and beauty that surrounds us. I hope the viewer can sense the same in my work.

Bio
Kate Huntington grew up in Providence, RI and began painting and drawing in her very early years. In high school, she met an Italian artist named Antonio Dattorro. Though quite an eccentric, he was an outstanding teacher, and he gave Ms. Huntington an understanding of the human form that was unequal to any formal education. Huntington became his protégé for quite a number of years receiving an invaluable education in the process. She received a scholarship to RISD in 1974 and has worked as a representational painter based in Providence, RI metropolitan area continuously since 1976. Her work is now shown in and about New England in galleries and museums and featured in several distinguished books. Her paintings and drawings are found in numerous and international private and corporate collections. In 2007, about a dozen of Kate’s paintings were featured in various scenes on the award-winning Showtime TV drama, “Brotherhood”. Her work can also be spotted in various films including: “The Maiden Heist”, “The Lightkeepers”, and Richard Gere’s, “Hachi, a Dog’s Tale”. She is a former member of The Copley Society in Boston and the Art League of RI.

Ms. Huntington works out of her Bristol, RI studio. Though she works on a variety of subjects, her real passion lies in the human figure. In 1992, after seeing a need for affordable open life drawing sessions in RI, she opened her studio to members of the local artist community for the study of the portrait and figurative work. Hundreds of students partook in the classes for 28 years until the 2020 pandemic caused it to end. Today, she is a respected life-drawing teacher at the historic Providence Art Club.