ABOUT
Artist. Farmer. Landscaper. Teacher. Living on Georgetown Island, Maine Kate enjoys walking in the woods and on the beaches with her dogs. Live & Grow Farm is where Kate garners inspiration from her goatie goats, entertaining chickens and native plants.
For almost 20 years, Kate has created, managed and revamped gardens and landscapes with her primary business, Plant Manager Studio, LLC. Every landscaping season is focused on working with client preferences which involve selecting plants, installation, and maintaining their gardens which makes for happy clients and healthy gardens. Every winter, she can be found sitting at her drawing table focusing on depicting many of the plants she nourishes during the landscaping season, or better yet, ones she discovers while traveling.
Kate’s chosen medium of colored pencils allows her to capture the wonderful, fine, layered details of plants and make it seem as if an observer of her painting could pluck the subject right off of the paper.
Education
Royal Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh Diploma in Botanical Illustration 2021 - 2024
Fall 2024 Botanical Art with Margaret Best, “Fall, Field or Forest”, Captain House Gallery and Studio, Chester, Nova Scotia
Fall 2022 Botanical Art with Margaret Best, “Natural Neutrals”workshop in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia
Fall 2018, Ann Swan, "Autumn Abundance & Creative Composition with in Coloured Pencil" Hassop Hall, Peak District.
August 2018, Evelyn Dunphy "Plein Air Workshop" Rhodora, the Frederic Church Camps, Millinocket, Maine.
Fall 2017, Ann Swan "Brilliant Berries" Workshop and "Striking Seasonal Subjects", Wiltshire and Peak District, England.
July 2017, Wendy Hollender of Hollengold Farm Botanical Art Workshop, Accord, New York.
Fall of 2016, Ann Swan’s Andalucia, Spain Holiday Botanical Art Workshop, Malaga, Spain.
Fall of 2008, Certificate of Completion in Botanical Art and Illustration, Denver Botanic Gardens School of Botanical Art and Illustration
Fall of 2012, Certificate of Completion in Native Plants and Ecology, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay, Maine.
May 2000, Associates of Applied Science in Graphic Design, Platt College, Aurora, CO
Exhibitions
July - October 2021, Capturing Capsules at Coastal Maine Botanic Gardens, Boothbay, Maine.
November - December 2017, Kate MacGillivary Art Exhibit, Georgetown Town Office, Georgetown, Maine.
March - May 2017, Guest Artist at Centre Street Gallery, Bath, Maine.
June - September 2016, Art Meets Science, A Fresh Field of Life, Imagine the Possibilities exhibit. MDI Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine.
April - June 2015, Guest Artist at Southport Memorial Library, Southport, Maine.
2013 - 2014 From the Mountains to the Sea; Plants, Trees and Shrubs of New England. A traveling exhibition developed by the New England Society of Botanical Artists.
2009 - 2010 RARE, Imperiled Plants of Colorado. A traveling exhibition developed by the Rocky Mountain Society of Botanical Artists.