About the Artist
Kat Furtado is a contemporary, mixed-media artist from San Diego, California. She specializes in abstraction and creating ethereal, expressive art. Kat is a certified and licensed Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) with a Master's of Art in Communication Science and Disorders. Her background as an SLP informs and inspires her path as an artist. Storytelling, emotions, and recurrent themes of humanity are woven with care into her work. To Furtado, creating art is an act of non-verbal communication and is validation of the human experience. Being that communication is the only true link between sentient beings, Furtado considers the creation of art to be an essential communicative endeavor.
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On Motherhood + Art

There is nothing that has inspired Kat's work as an artist more than becoming a parent. She began painting after having her first child and didn't start painting with any sense of regularity or purpose until 2017 when her second child was born. |
She often says that if you are a person who tells others they can reach the moon, they should see you reaching for the stars every day. Through this method and through her firm belief in growth mindset, she works to show her kids that if they dream it, they can bring it to life. Becoming an artist and having her own business was her way of showing her small children that even leaving a long term career can be an open door to the next beautiful thing, as art was for her. |