Kati Thomson is a California native, which has informed each of her creative efforts.  Kati was born in Fresno and returned to the Central Valley after living in both Southern and Northern California for work and education.  After a long career in healthcare, her need to tell stories has taken her from writing novels, screenplays and poetry, to film production and then to visual art. Working mostly in oil, Kati paints a variety of subjects both from life and in her studio in Clovis, California with a focus on Figurative art.

“Im drawn again and again to the human figure, the faces around me. What is it about the placement of a single line that creates or destroys recognition between one human and another – in implied motion/rest, attractiveness/non-attractiveness, inner dialogue. We read body language without thinking and in a way create a story about other people with so little real information. How is it that we can draw so much understanding of a person with just a crease between the brow or the position of a head?

I like things a little disordered, creating clarity in the things that are important to me and letting the rest fall apart a little. When I was writing, I imagined my story in a series of vignettes. And while I could picture every detail of my characters – their intentions, thoughts, feelings – I struggled with the links between the scenes. As a visual artist I realize that those missing details are the mysteries of human stories and I prefer leaving them up to the viewer.” — Kati Thomson