Beaver Valley based artist, Kathleen Heithorn-Althoff, has been honing her photography skills since acquiring a Pentax K1000 after university, 33 years ago, and travelling the world with it. Kathleen worked at Rabbit Photo in Sydney, Australia, and went on to seek further photography education part-time at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson) at the School of Image Arts. It was there through volunteering for the Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education Annual Photography Exhibit she earned a Dennis Mock award nomination.
Kathleen’s formal arts background includes a degree in Art History/History from Western University. Outside the other mediums she uses, her true inspiration for photography evolved from spending thousands of hours sailing on the Atlantic observing weather, as well as the contrast in the simplicity and complexity that comes from her most passionate subject, the humble flower. All her flower subjects are from experiments in her garden that she cultivates year over year.
