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Katherin Larson is a painter, muralist and children's book illustrator who has completed more than 150 murals at various U.S. locations. She has 10 nationally-distributed books. More than 35 of her paintings have been published as cover art for the Ann Arbor Observer magazine.
"Painting is a passion that started very early with my first watercolor set and a burning desire to paint what I saw around me,” Larson said. “I would spend hours in the basement of our house where frogs lived in a damp window well. It was my own private ‘nature under glass,’ and the frogs sat still for hours so that I could observe and paint them in the changing light.
“If, as an artist, you can retain the eyes of a child, there is beauty even in the most mundane and ordinary. One very dark and cold winter morning, I looked out my window to see the first faint glow of light coming through the trees, and I got the distinct feeling that the trees were looking at it too. In the silence, these ‘beings’ were witnesses to the coming sunrise. After that day, I started looking at all of nature differently.…”
"Light Through the Eyes of Nature" will open Friday, March 5 with an artist reception from 7 to 9 p.m. in the HVCA gallery; there is no charge for the “Light through the Eyes of Nature” exhibit, which concludes March 27. | 
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