Biographies > Katherine Burgman

Katherine Burgman’s two watercolours are soft gentle paintings – one a still life of flowers and the other of Cobalt Lake.  For over 30 years, Katherine was a member of the Kirkland Lake Art Club and the Northern Ontario Art Association.  She also regularly attended the Artists’ Colonies in Cobalt, considering them to be of enormous value to northern Ontario artists. 

Originally from Tilbury, Ontario, Katherine was a descendant of pioneers. She always enjoyed art and said she probably inherited her creative spark from two aunts who taught art in public school.   She trained as a dental nurse and with her dentist husband, moved north to Kirkland Lake in 1947.  While raising her family Katherine practised her art in a variety of media – acrylics, watercolour, oils, charcoal and impasto.  She was always a studio painter and enjoyed experimenting with new techniques.