KathyMercure

Hello art lover! I’m Kathy Mercure, the artist behind KatPaintsWatercolour and Botanical Impressions. My favourite thing is to watch water and pigment flow together, clash, and make gorgeous new colours. I paint botanical impressions, mostly in watercolour. I rarely use brushes, instead I splash lots of water and paint onto paper and then lay botanicals (either just picked or preserved) into the paint and impress them with weight and time. When I release them to the air, they dry and the most astoundingly beautiful things appear on the paper. I never thought I was an artist because I don’t draw well, don’t really enjoy painting representational art, and couldn’t create anything that felt like a piece of my soul. How could I call myself an artist? But I was told when I found my ‘what’ (as in what I MUST paint) I would feel comfortable calling myself an artist. And the genius art coach who told me this was so eerily prescient, I am so grateful I kept moving forward while looking backward to the botanical prints that I left behind for a bit, but kept calling me back. They fulfill me and make it feel safe to call myself an artist. Whether I continue to paint until the day I die, or pack up my supplies and move on (something I honestly can’t imagine now) I will always be a creator… a creative. I am a lover of beauty and sensuality and it permeates everything I’ve done in my life, whether in writing, baking, cooking, decorating, painting, or graphic arts, I LIVE TO CREATE BEAUTIFUL THINGS! I hope you enjoy this selection of my botanical impression in watercolour and that you find something that must be in your home or office.