Archives for Irish, Katherine

Chasing Her Dreams

  Katherine Irish has chased—and caught—two dreams. The first one came to her when she was a young girl. She had pulled out the “P” volume of the family’s set of encyclopedias and flipped through its pages until she landed on “painting.” The masterpieces featured within those pages fascinated her. “I studied those paintings for hours,” she says. A dream was born. The second dream came to Irish many years later while she was studying art and living in New York. In 1981, she took a painting trip to New Mexico and was fascinated by what she saw there—the landscape
Read More