“Can you be still? There’s a void only silence can fill. Where you are is all that’s real…” Mon Rovia, City on a Hill
Next Saturday and Sunday, November 7 & 8, in Atlanta, GA, I’ll be showing my work at Chastain Arts Festival.
I will be physically showing a version of what I’ve been thinking about the nature of my work for some time now: that the cave world of Metanoia runs parallel to the world we see and experience daily. By hanging a selection of my newest works alongside my figurative nude Metanoia paintings, glowing still life Heirloom and Ancestor paintings referencing antique photographs, I’m presenting a complete look at my worldview as an artist.
Here’s a sneak peak at my booth set up for the Chastain Park Arts Festival.
I created Metanoia to describe the unseen force of spiritual transformation, and my most recent works - Threshold States - explore a much more tangible, but no less mysterious, world.
My solo show of dancing nude female figures, Metanoia, at the Electric Shed in Nashville, TN ran from April-May 2026.
Art rarely comes to be in a vacuum. As I was closing my show at the Electric Shed in May, I was personally settling into a new experimentation in stillness. I get the line from Mon Rovia’s song City on a Hill ringing through my mind at times when I feel the familiar itch to check my phone for a moment’s distraction - “Can you be still? There’s a void only silence can fill. Where you are is all that’s real…”
We often live our lives in a holding pattern, waiting for the day to end, only to start again the next day with the same sort of malaise. Isn’t there more to the every day than that? I began asking myself this question, and looking for opportunities to break myself out of the holding pattern. My children became guides out of the feeling of restlessness that comes with living our daily modern lives - they don’t while the day away or wish for the day to end. They fight the ubiquitous childhood bedtime fight every night, trying to get minutes, even seconds, more play out of their day.
Follow the Leader, 20×36”, Oil on Canvas, Available
This isn’t the first time I’ve followed my children’s interests and found inspiration. But it is the first time I’m bringing my daily life into my art work in such a literal way. The scenes I’m painting are from my daily life. The fruits and flowers are from my own garden. The antiques in the illuminated still lifes are ones I’ve collected or inherited. As Metanoia depicted my soul journey through transformations no one could see, these new works depict the wonder and deep meaning in daily life.
I hope you’ll come see these works in person, and stop by my booth at Chastain Park Arts Festival on November 7th or 8th for a chat. If you can’t make it in person, drop me a line at katelin@kschuttart.com. I’d love to connect with you!
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