Katie Blackwell is an artist, ICU nurse, and mom of two creative  torpedos. Painting has been in and out of her life in direct correlation  with her sanity. The beginnings art collection Of surrealist figures  dominated her early art career.   Her goal was to go back to those twisted corded figures after finishing  her nursing degree.   Fast forward a lifetime: mental health led her back to full time art.  

Long story short, being an artist is more than the material you use or  the products you make. It is a thought process, way to sense and  understand the landscape around you. Being an artist is not something  that comes or goes. It is a temperament, not something to be put aside  by simply Turing off the tap any more than one can decide to stop their  blood.  Her art is now focused on observations of self within portrait work. 

 Offering custom pet portraits, surrealist/abstract portraits and  original art  Now through a new company Name; Shadow Work Portraits.  Appropriately named as the method to bringing light into every corner of  our being to more clearly represent that which is us and let that tap  flow.   

Current website www.phinxart.com  

New website www.shadowworkportraits.com 

Facebook: @shadowworkportraits 

Instagram @katie.ghant