Kathleen Gemberling Adkison

(American (born 1917, died 2010))

Northwest artist Kathleen Gemberling Adkison (1917-2010) created expressive abstract paintings. An avid hiker and mountain climber, her dynamic compositions were influenced by the natural landscape. In her own words, "The insistent life-force or energy expressed by nature in its wondrous plenitude of form and color, its mystery, its surprise and gr