About

Short Bio

Kait Monroe recently received the title ‘BEST IN SHOW’ at the Regional Juried Biennial Art Exhibition at the Rehoboth Art League for Her 30 x48 inch oil painting of an underwater swimmer totaled 'Siren'. In April of 2022 she was also accepted into a Juried show at the Chris White Gallery in Wilmington for the exhibition ‘Let me tell you’. Kait Monroe creates commissioned paintings of portraits and figures. For inspiration, Monroe looks to idealistic painters like Abbott Handerson Thayer. Monroe resides with her husband and two daughters on their farmette in the coastal town of Lewes, Delaware where she and her husband grow native plants, keep laying hens as pets, and have an unruly garden.

Statement

The titles we all carry around can become like heavy layers distorting our perceptions of the world and how we see ourselves in it. Time at the easel is my sacred space and I hope to share that with the viewer through my brush strokes. My underwater paintings are meant to represent moments between breaths, moments between action, and the self that remains when one is utterly alone. When the titles of the parent, spouse, caretaker, giver, provider, good and bad dissolve away we are left with the truth of who we are. My Idealistic styled oil paintings seek to represent an inward reflection and acceptance of the self.

Monroekait@gmail.com