Katelyn Geard is an emerging multimedia artist working with photography and drawing as a form of communication and expression.

Katelyn’s primary practice is hyper-realistic drawings made with powdered graphite, brushes, erasers, and pencils. The drawings are delicate and realistic images that body that dissolve, blur, fragment and float in negative space.

“My process involves a lot of push and pull with layers, I build them up with brushes, pare it back, build it up again with pencils and pare it back, repeating this process again and again until tones, forms and textures emerge.”

There is a recurring subject of the human body, in particular arms and hands. They are a vital method of connection and expression with their own unique language. Even when a face isn’t visible, we are still able to experience an immediate emotional and somatic connection with a work that contains a human body or a part of a human body. This is a primary field of inquiry for Katelyn’s practice.