Kathleen Dunphy brings her passion for life to her artwork.  Since closing her floral design business and taking up art as her career in 1996, she has garnered numerous prestigious awards for her paintings and drawings, including being named one of the Top Ten Emerging Artists in 1998 by American Artist Magazine.

Dunphy’s career started with a 16th ranking in the 1996 Federal Duck Stamp Competition, the first competition she entered.  Five years later, she was juried into the prestigious Birds in Art competition, a showcase for wildlife art held annually at the Leigh Yawkey Woodsen Art Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin.  In addition, two of her wildlife paintings were juried into Arts for the Parks 2002.

Dunphy received a full scholarship to the Academy of Art College in San Francisco. During the two years she attended, her artwork received top awards in the landscape and still life categories of the college’s annual Spring Show. In 2002, she was one of only 12 new artists accepted to join the acclaimed California Art Club.

Kathleen is also an accomplished landscape painter and was juried into the 2001 and 2002 Carmel Art Festival.  Her paintings were juried into the 1999 and 2003 Oil Painters of America’s Annual Exhibitions, where she received the Award of Excellence in 2003. In 2006 Dunphy won Best of Show in The Argosy Gallery’s Acadia Invitational featuring the work of 24 nationally recognized artists who painted Maine’s Acadia National Park.