Katelin Schutt

Hi, I'm Katelin Schutt — a Nashville figurative oil painter whose work has been exhibited at Pearview Gallery and Electric Shed, named a Critic's Pick by the Nashville Scene, and collected across the Southeast.

I create work for people drawn to beauty with substance — art that looks and feels timeless while carrying mystery and emotional depth. My paintings move through figures, veils, shadow, water, and light, treating each subject as a threshold between what has been and what is becoming. If you are drawn to transformation, movement, and the sacredness of change, my work meets you there.

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My practice is grounded in serious study and a deep commitment to craft. I studied figure drawing with Steve Huston, and my work has been shown in New Hampshire, California, and Tennessee. My paintings have been featured in Arts to Hearts Magazine Issue 12.

My life and work are rooted in devotion: to my art, to my family, and to the things that ask us to pay closer attention. I grew up in Southwest Virginia as an only child, and much of my early drawing practice came from boredom, which I still consider one of the great gifts life has to offer. I have also been a musician, a baker, a farmer, and a teacher, and each role shaped the artist I am now. They taught me discipline, observation, sensitivity, and how to return to the work again and again.

I come from Appalachian people, and that inheritance lives in the way I see the world. I grew up foraging for morel mushrooms in the spring, a family tradition, and I return each year to my alma mater, Sewanee, to see the wildflowers blooming in Shakerag Hollow. That lifelong attention to fleeting beauty, seasonal change, and the sacredness of ordinary life deeply informs my paintings. It is why I return again and again to transformation—to what vanishes, what returns, and what changes us.

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Paintings are delivered varnished, ready to hang, and packed with great care to arrive safely.

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Represented by Thompson Studio, Nashville.