I have been interested in art all my life. The main things that I can remember about elementary school are all the cool pictures that I was allowed to draw. When I graduated from high school, I enrolled in college studying fine arts. Alas, marriage, two children and moving all over the world got in the way.

After being born in Texas, raised on the Mexican border in McAllen, living in the bayou country below New Orleans for 3 years, 5 years in Peru, and over 30 years in Alaska, I have collected thousands of scenes that I want to paint.

I finally did finish college in my early forties, but not in Fine Arts as I had wanted, but in Elementary Education with an emphasis in Art. I taught Art for one year, but found I liked teaching the little ones to read and write much more exciting.

During my teaching career I also had a pottery studio for almost ten years. I loved throwing pots, but it didn't love me. A serious case of asthma forced me to go back to two deminsional arts. I concentrated on drawing and later, watercolor.

Since I have retired and returned to Texas, I have had time to concentrate on me art and have studied digital photography and computer manipulation of both photographs and scanned original art. I hope to soon include acrylic and pastel work in my repertoire.

The Fredericksburg Art Guild is a wonderful, supportive group of people who encourage each other in exploring their potential. I am glad to be a part of such an organization and look forward to expanding my skills and fulfilling all those dreams of interpreting my life's experiences through the medium of art.

Please feel free to contact me via email at ksautner@austin.rr.com to inquire about my art and to obtain a list of my framed and unframed originals and prints that are currently available for sale.