Kennie Mauche/Artist Bio 12/20/2023
Artist Statement: Kennie paints to see, to connect, to slow down and share the beauty of the light that surrounds us all.
Kennie is a born and raised Marylander, at a time Rockville was considered a sleepy farm town. A great spot for kids who loved being outside, roaming the land, splashing in the streams and being familiar with our four footed and winged neighbors. Kennie is still doing the same with her Plein Air Painting practice in Southern Maryland and traveling the world.
Primary Medium - Oil Painting
Kennie was fortunate to have exposure to art with original paintings in the family home from a Mom, Aunt and family friends who practiced the visual arts and shared their work (observations/opinions) with each other.
Kennie graduated with a Civil Engineering Degree and worked in construction, starting a Soil and Erosion Control business in 1986 which allowed retirement in 2003 to begin working more diligently on the art career with great enthusiasm and energy.
Formal Art classes for the last 50 years including - art history, photography, drawing, pottery, interior design, intaglio printing, figure sculpting, pastels, watercolors, portraiture and mostly oil painting for the last 17 years.
Influential Teachers, Institutions and Artists that helped Kennie develop are too many to list but include:
Readily available National Gallery of Art, The Portrait Gallery, The Phillips, and more.
Christine LaFluente, Winslow Art Center
Marc Delessio, New Maters Academy
Alison Barry, Plein Air Landscape and Patuxent Painters Group of dedicated artists.
Rick Weaver, Tonalism Figure Painting, Sarah Polley, Landscape, the Art League, Old Town Va.
Rick Casali, Figure/Portrait drawing and sculpture
Peter E. Egeli, Galesville Maryland Studio Intensives
Lee Boynton, John Ebersberger, Bonnie Roth Anderson, Hensche/Hawthorne methods, MD Hall
Diana Marta, Leonard Koscianski, Chris Mona, Arundle College.
Eric Butters, Walt Bartman, Glen Echo Yellow Barn School
Achievements:
Photographs B&W Competition 1973, two out of five, and hung Maryland State House
Corcoran School Art, Photo B&W 1974, hung in Studio School, DC
2010 Built separate Home Studio with solid Art Library
Mattawoman Art Competition, 2021, Oil Painting, Honorable Mention
Member of “Patuxent Painters” of Southern Maryland
Juried into North End Gallery, Co-op of 35 or more artists in Leonardtown, MD 01/2023-
