Kathy grew up in Ottawa. In 1973 she moved to a rural setting near Eganville, a small Ontario community located between Ottawa and Algonquin Park.

There she began spinning natural fibers and weaving tapestries inspired by her new surrounding landscape. Kathy also worked in stained glass and then pastels before eventually taking up oil painting in 1998. The first two shows she entered won best of show and honourable mention.

Though largely self-taught her interpretation is strongly influenced by her father, Arctic painter Maurice Haycock and by his close painting partner of 30 years, A. Y. Jackson. Early Arctic trips with her father introduced her to the lure of the North and inspired a sweeping and graceful movement in her work. She has traveled to the Canadian Arctic and Greenland since 1975.

Kathy’s lively landscape paintings are animated with weather, wind, light, sensuous forms and rhythmic motion. Primarily a wilderness painter, she works outside on location in all seasons, inspired by the immediate and exuberant experience of painting from within a landscape. Through painting she hopes to increase awareness of the importance and fragility of nature’s simple and often under appreciated natural places.

Kathy has taken workshops from Charles Spratt, Lucy Manley and Dennis Cliff. Her work is represented in private, public and corporate collections from the Yukon to Newfoundland, and in the USA, Europe, China and Australia.

Paintings can be viewed at Bittersweet Gallery in Burnstown, the Gallery at the Club at Bond Head, Eclipse Gallery in Huntsville, the Madawaska Valley Studio Tour, and at the Woodland Gallery, Eganville.