Katja has been painting and creating animal sculptures ever since she can remember. She got her first pet portrait commission when she was 13 years. Since that time she did commissioned work every now and then, but she never thought of establishing her own business creating portraits. After graduating Art School year 1996, Katja was the only one claiming that it's way too hard making a living out from selling artwork. That claim was probably true, since internet wasn't spread like it is today.
Therefor she moved to Slovenia and found work as a designer in the company Logina. Katja had many job assignments in that company; everything from creating logotypes, touch-screen applications, flash animations, CD presentations and websites, to banners, ads, brochures and designing info-mat/ kiosk models. In year 2004 Katja moved back to Sweden with her son and dog, she attended a self-employer study course and registered her company. It probably was her true call in life to paint especially animals, since pets always were a big part of her life. Katja said:
"I just adore animals, and expressing their soul and character gives me extreme satisfaction. An animal can give you so much pleasure, something I sense every day in my own two dogs"
Katja creates paintings and drawings in many different mediums, four of those are: oils, pencils, colored pencils and watercolors. There really is something special about Katja's work, she probably is a chameleon after all :) |
