Katy Jane Conlin Artist

“Sometimes the truth is outrageous, and you just have to describe it thus, and take the risk that it makes you sound partisan or alarming. If reality has departed from the norms, so should your descriptions of that reality” -Rebecca Solnit

Narcissus and Orange sketch, oil on paper, 8”x13” or so

“Viburnum”, oil on canvas 16x16”- in process from life & photograph, canvas from the stack of older pieces I’m painting over. Think this one was originally a still life of lemons. We’ll see where she goes, planning to add some stencil work and not sure what else once this layer sets a bit

Photo featuring a rectangular textile artwork hanging vertically with strips of different coloured material and a rectangle of white stars on a dark blue background, all giving the impression of a flag

Memories without recollection, flag #19, 2008 from the 'Flag Series' by Iranian artist Sara Rahbar #WomensArt

Early Tulips, 11x14” acrylic on paper, signed & available www.katyjaneconlin.com/workszoom/59...

in process, horses are still beautiful even while we resist.

We're in a coup, which means we're in a nightmare, which means we're all ramped up, so let me offer you some deep time, perseverance, and beauty, before you and I go back to the work.

oil on canvas, in process, “RFK NO” left it here on confirmation day last week, I could not make this pretty

sunflower sketch, acrylic & mixed media on paper

acrylic and mixed media on gesso’d paper approx 12x16” Available ‘as is’ for a lower price, will go up once I get her mounted on panel and added to my website. Message me to make her yours.

America, you broke through—the media, from small outlets to large, is finally picking up on what’s happening. Legislators, judges, and attorneys general across the country are speaking out. They hear you. We love you and are honored to serve you! 🦬💚🇺🇸

seriously. Just unreal.

February 3, 2025 I’m going to start tonight by stating the obvious: the Republicans control both chambers of Congress: the House of Representatives and the Senate.

February 3, 2025

I paint on even as she burns… believing in the phoenix I guess and what else can one do but shine on.

Week Three: The Pushback I think of this as primarily a site for more thoughtful essayistic stuff but I was doing one of those news roundup in-the-moment things I do on FB and thought I should maybe try doing it here. Right ...

Launched a newsletter YESTERDAY and I'm not only posting essays there, but also trying to do some of the news aggregation there I used to do on Facebook. Like this. meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/week-three-t...

This is sketching wild mustangs -a beautiful stallion and mare. The’re truly wild &show scars typical of horses that live without humans. Magical beasts. So many layers of value nuances & geometry show their magnificent form and spirit even when still. Impossible to fully capture on so many levels.

building up layers, going back and forth between trying out color and value shifts and finding and losing line in procreate then to the easel- she’s still in acrylic and various pencils but meandering toward moving her into oil maybe right over the top maybe starting again.

this is where we rested as of last night. I worked on her beautiful eye and found some of the line again, added another layer of medium. We’ll see what direction we go today, she still needs depth, dimension, nuance and something…

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
-Angela Davis

Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis.

"If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory."
--Angela Davis

meandering, somewhere in the magical muddy middle

flowers are such a big part of what I do, last fresh bouquet of 2024 but thinking of a separate account for my flower farm….pondering this. Maddies Flower Farm.

this is Loretta and we’ll be singing together in 2025. Been learning a few songs and working on some collaboration with a pal

daily sketching & painting as a way through ~ this is Sky my beautiful mare

on the easel this week

this is work in process, pony pals, acrylic and collage on board, always seeking the color and light even in the darkest days…