Plein air

Roughly 10 years ago she started to focus on plein air painting. Over the last five years Katerina has challenged her abilities by painting in the city (Karlovy Vary & Prague in the Czech Rep.; San Francisco & Angels Camp). She says about painting cities, "Everything-- except the architecture -- is in motion. Cars, trucks, the cable cars, and people. All this action forces the artist to develop a sort of stop-motion ability with an emphasis on one's peripheral vision to catch over one week the one scene that is depicted on the canvas. I paint two or three canvases over an entire week, also capturing into my brain through my eyes all the pure colors".