Katherine Crim
A graduate of Fairmont State College, I have been an art teacher in Harrison County since the 1990’s. I have, however, been an artist for as long as I can remember. Raised as an art fair kid in the greatest American Arts & Craft movement, I studied many different trades. I learned to appreciate working hard, honing my craft, and the joy of making things.
I have always loved drawing and painting, especially nature around me: flowers, trees, streams. I love our WV State Parks and strive to express them in many different art media. I seek interesting light and shadows, negative space involvement and pattern and most recently altered surfaces such as maps. I love to journal with various pens and hunger for the transparency of watercolors, the buttery smoothness and luminosity of oil sticks, the mark-making of oil pastels, textural layers of collage and impasto of acrylics. I continue to experiment and keep learning different processes and approaches. Challenges often inspire great outcomes, so I believe we should never stop learning.
A signature member of the WV Watercolor Society, and a Tamarack artist, I enter exhibitions often and have many successes. I also accept custom, commissioned work.
My husband and I created Art by Crim three decades ago to not only promote my work but provide quality art and framing to the community. Our fine art, photography and framing gallery has grown and evolved. We make a good team and have painted many murals locally. You can see our photography, framing and artwork in many facilities including the Robinson Grand Center for Performing Arts, Veteran’s Hospital & Nursing Facility, UHC’s Spine & Orthopaedic Clinic, WVU Clinics and Summit Centers around the state.
Located on 834 South Chestnut Street, Clarksburg, WV 26301, we may be the only business that still makes house calls! Come visit and see my entire collection of prints, cards and originals or find us on facebook, instagram or our website www.artbycrim.com soon! Thank you for your interest in my work!
