Winner, Gold Award, Texas Association of Museums Wilder Awards, 2011

"I begin with a silver photographic image, a kind of evidence. Then I paint on this in many transparent layers of oil paint and pencil. If I am lucky, the media combine and become enmeshed, a curious union of what was real with my own exaggerations and embellishments, so I can show how beautiful it all is--the light, the form, the texture, and color--because I am a sensualist, and this is my deepest pleasure, my lovely addiction."
--Kate Breakey

Kate Breakey is internationally recognized for...