The awesomely-named American artist Kate Hooray Osmond (how adorable are her parents to name her that?) works harder than most – if not all – of the artists I’ve profiled previously. Apparently, she travels by helicopter, climbs construction cranes, and even repels from buildings to capture her source images. Somebody buy that girl a drone! Osmond says her work is an exploration of non-judgement and the “impossibility of experience.” Her large-scale canvases are joyously covered in bold colors and gold leaf, and they’re making me feel happier.

“I am an interdisciplinary artist whose main focus is the visual world: what we see and how we see it with our minds-eye. My intention is for the viewer of my work to be presented with new perspectives with which to view life and a call to release judgement in favor of wonder. I travel to new locations often and prefer to capture the world from views that are non-traditional: from a helicopter, or ship, or crane.” Katie Hooray Osmond interview with Canvas Rebel

Osmond’s original art training was in welding, and I can see how that has informed her paintings. They’re more about shapes than fine details. After school, Osmond had a job taking helicopter trips for a GPS company, and that’s when her love of aerial views began. What an interesting trajectory her life has taken!

You can follow Kate Hooray Osmond on her website and on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook.