Kathie Boldt ’78
This seeing/drawing process is filled with the thrill of inspiration, the labor of looking hard, the making of lively marks, the challenge of things falling apart, and a pulling back together a sense of the whole, without belaboring the parts. It is both work and play. At it's finest, a deep sense of satisfaction and joy occurs, a transformation from the simplicity of pencil on paper.
For the last sixteen years Kathleen “Kathie” Boldt has been an instructor for MECA&D’s Continuing Studies program besides teaching at Merrymeeting Adult Education and offering private instruction in drawing, colored pencil, gouache painting and design. Drawing and teaching are true passions for Kathie and she brings an enormous amount of energy to classes such as “Drawing for the Complete and Utter Beginner” and “Drawing for Seniors.”
She says, “Drawing excited me first as a means of understanding the world around me, on both the physical and spiritual levels. There is something in the act of seeing/drawing with absolute visual attention that yields both order and surprise. The delicate pattern moving in a leaf or in the growth pattern of a shell starts me on my way. The sensation of the act of drawing produces a feeling of deep inner connection to the natural world.”
The precise beauty in a machine‐made or a handmade tool also inspires my examination. Thus, inventing still lifes (which I perceive as full of life) with plants, organic objects, and intriguing patterned fabrics, leads me into developing dynamic shapes and spaces, and then, most importantly, into building as wide a range of lights and darks as I can sustain. This seeing/drawing process is filled with the thrill of inspiration, the labor of looking hard, the making of lively marks, the challenge of things falling apart, and a pulling back together a sense of the whole, without belaboring the parts. It is both work and play. At it's finest, a deep sense of satisfaction and joy occurs, a transformation from the simplicity of pencil on paper.”