Katie Lee is a botanical and zoological artist who works in gouache, watercolor, and graphite. Katie was born in Kenya in East Africa, but has spent most of her adult life in the United States, returning regularly to the continent of her birth. Katie runs regular workshops and courses in the USA as well as sketchbook safaris in the Okavango Delta, a unique wilderness area in Botswana in Southern Africa.
Katie Lee’s reputation as a gifted artist and educator preceded her, and I discovered was well deserved. I have never encountered an artist more enthusiastic to share her knowledge and experience, in a manner that’s hugely encouraging and enabling to artists of all levels, including total beginners. Katie’s love for her art, for things botanical and wildlife, is infectious. Time spent with her left me on a creative high. (Disclosure: Subsequent to my going on this sketchbook safari, Katie Lee and I became friends.)
Katie uses this quote to describe her thoughts about her work: “We are made so that we love first, when we see them painted, things we have passed perhaps a hundred times, nor cared to see.”
