Katie Reinhardt
Painter

Influenced by living for over a decade in Latin America, Katie is primarily a colorist. As a trained
art therapist working for many years in an adult psychiatric hospital, she knows the power of
color to evoke feelings.  Katie received her B.A. from the University of Michigan and her M.A. in
Art Therapy from NYU.  She studied art in both Guatemala and Bogota, Colombia with the
renowned artist David Manzur.  In 1979, she received a degree in Modern Art Studies from the
Institute of Contemporary Art Studies in London. Her visual message is a positive and optimistic
one.

Recently, the influence of Chinese art has begun to permeate her work.  After seeing the
Imperial Treasures of China exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she began exploring the
many possibilities for reinterpreting and assimilating Chinese motifs in her art. Chinese robes
are colorful and provide an interesting background for her still lives.  In Chinese culture
everything in the universe can be represented by color which symbolized status, authority,
emotions,virtue, needs, etc.

As an art therapist, Katie used art with her patients primarily as a healing process to make them
feel better.  As an, artist, her objective is to enliven the senses with color and give the viewer
pleasure and a sense of optimism and possibility.

Recently, she received a letter from a customer, which seemed to verbalize her intent as an
artist: "Every one of your paintings makes my heart sing. Your splendidly colored flowers cry
out, scream out color in the gray of winter.  Somehow these paintings shout Life, Live, Enjoy,
Believe, See Beauty, Have Faith!"

Local Contact
P.O. Box 155
72 Van Tuyl Rd. (red barn)
Barryville, NY  12719
Email: johnwell@msn.com
Website: www.katiereinhardt.com

Studio Hours: By chance or appointment, in-season, June- September. Katie has a lovely
showroom, and welcomes your visit. For off-season, appointments are recommended.

Alternate Contact
Summit, NJ
Ph. 908-273-9471

Directions From Barryville: At the blinking light intersection of Route 97 and Route 55 in
Barryville, take 97 South. Proceed 3/10 mile, make left hand turn on Hillside Rd.  Slightly after
one mile take the right hand fork which is Van Tuyl Rd.  Continue on Van Tuyl, going downhill,
for 2 miles.  Katie’s studio and home is in the red barn on the left at the bottom of the hill. 

Directions From Pond Eddy: Take Rte 97 North from the Pond Eddy Bridge and go 3 miles until
you see Squires Antique Barn on the right.  Make the first right hand turn onto Van Tuyl Rd. 
Follow the road as it curves to the left and makes a hairpin turn going up hill.  Continue to follow
the road to the left, and just past Bloom Rd., Katie’s studio will be on the right hand side, 1/2
mile from Rte 97.