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Kathy DeZarn Beynette
My Heroes Have Always Been Shepherds

Kathy DeZarn Beynette’s joyful, whimsical paintings are infused with her passion for animals, art, and the written word. Viewing them, one feels drawn into a narrative; her creatures have distinct personalities and speak volumes with their eyes. “Before I became a painter,” Beynette says, “I wrote fiction and poetry, which probably explains my narrative approach to painting.” Her work, wrote one commentator, “comes with an enormous depth of human feeling attached. Fun and caring without sentimentality. Straight to the heart pieces.” Kathy’s creatures follow her wherever she goes, but the painting happens in her studio in Alexandria, Virginia.