Artists

Katherine Jeans

Katherine is an award winning filmmaker and visual artist whose body of work is a life long exploration of the arts. 

Born in St. John’s, Newfoundland, she moved to Ottawa as a young girl, where she still resides today with her daughter Ivy and husband Neil Bregman. 

As partner of Sound Venture Productions for over 20 years she balances her time between visual art and documentary making.

Katherine's interest lies in capturing the ephemeral moment of a moving image.  Her unique style has movement, depth and transparency that is historically connected to her vocabulary as a filmmaker.

Her paintings are a personal selection of random freeze frames much like one would see in a dream or a moving picture.  She has been inspired by watching hundreds of hours of moving images in the editing suite.  It is these poignant flashes of beauty that she is interested in transforming as in-and-out-of-focus mysteries on canvas.

Her work oscillates between painting and photorealism.  She applies oil paint and mixed media in many different ways, pushing the boundaries of reality.

Exploring many genres of painting has been a necessary evolution to sustain Katherine’s faith in art as one of the “highest forms of hope”.

Her desire is to paint – what is beautiful.