Washington DC artist, Kathryn Freeman is a narrative painter who combines classical composition with magic realism. Freeman’s paintings have been exhibited in galleries in Europe and across the United States, including New York, Los Angeles, London, Boston, Washington, and Baltimore. Her paintings are in numerous private and public collections and she has completed several large-scale public mural commissions including two, three-story murals for a new public library in Jacksonville, Florida. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Arts Magazine, Art Forum, American Artist and numerous other publications.
Freeman's interpretation,
The idea for this painting came from a mesmerizing short story by Aimee Bender called 'Tiger Mending.' In my mind the tigers were coming out of the mountains to get help from humans. Their stripes falling off as symbolic of the fragility of this great beast in the modern world. The young woman mending the tigers represents the mindfulness, inventiveness and skill it is going to take for us as the responsible party to "mend" the environment. While she is the creative and the talent who has the ability to do the mending, her sister, leading the tigers in, is the facilitator - the person with the brain and resourcefulness to make things happen.
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