Born in Oregon (USA), Kathryn Gabinet-Kroo began her career as an artist studying life drawing and black and white photography at Boston’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts after earning a BA from Cornell University. She moved to Montreal in 1977. She has been painter for almost fifty years and was an instructor at the Saidye Bronfman School of Fine Arts until its closing.

Arriving in Montreal, Gabinet-Kroo found herself without a darkroom, so she began experimenting with watercolours and later with oils. The world of colour opened itself up to this self-taught painter who quickly developed a technique that suited her highly realistic still-lifes.

After a decade of showing these works in solo and group shows, Gabinet-Kroo turned