A trail of achievements

While life has thrown more than a few curve balls at Katrina, it has not been without a long and growing list of achievements that has balanced out past grief with an abundance of ongoing joy.

1974 - Semi completed Diploma of Fine Art
Created several sell out fashion parades of her designer clothes
Mother of four children
Ran several stores in the Central Highlands specialising in patchwork fabrics
Beef producer
Director of a successful Financial Planning and General Insurance company
2000 - carried an Olympic torch
2006 - Highly Commended Woollam Waltzing Matilda Outback Art Award along with having been selected every year to exhibit since 2005
Selected to participate in the Brisbane Rotary Art Spectacular for the last 5 years
2008 - 1st Prize Barcaldine Art Exhibition
2012 - Katrina’s first solo exhibition comes to fruition at Beef Week in Rockhampton
2012 - March: Guest Speaker for 'Breast Friends Day' Cloncurry
2012 - March: Overall Winner of the Inaugural Barcaldine Regional Council Inaugural Art Competition
2012 - Guest speaker at the Ladies Lunch Beef Week
2012 - Public Speaker
2012 - First at the Blackwater State High School Art Exhibition
2012 - Judge at the Cloncurry Arts Council Inc - Ernest Henry Memorial Art Show
2012 - November shared joint 'Bunginderry' Art exhibition at Percolator
2013 - Artist in Residence at 'Panda Pearls'
2013 - Finalist Rotary Art Spectacular
2013 - Guest Speaker Zonta Club
2013 - Winner Still Life @ Nundah Village Festival Art Competition & Exhibition with 'Appeasement'
2013 – 1st Historical, 2nd Landscape @ Ernest Henry Memorial Art Contest
2013 - October 'We, Us & Co' Joint Family Exhibition at the Richard Randall Art Studio, Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens
2014 - Highly Commended Overall BSHAC
2014 - 'Panda-monium' entered in Archibald
2014 - Guest Speaker @ The Moreton Club
2015 – Two paintings selected to be printed in the International Contemporary Artists Vol.X “The Big G A” and “The Three Boys”
2015 - Sell out Solo Exhibition 'Beef 2015' titled 'The Bull Artist'
2015 - 2 page Write Up in Outback Magazine page 94
2015 - Blue's Country Magazine feature July edition
2015 - Winner -The Human Form Kenilworth Art Competition
2015 - Overall Winner from All Categories Kenilworth Art Competition
2016 - Highly Commended Kenilworth Art Competition Still Life
2019 - Brisbane Portrait Prize Top 100 Finalist - 'Chatelaine'
2020: Queensland Regional Art Awards’ Annie Tan Memorial Watercolour Award.
2021: Solo Exhibition (sell out) Beef Week Rockhampton
2021: Finalist Clayton Utz
2021: Combined exhibition Pia Du Pradal Milton Studio
2021: Combined exhibition Anthea Poulson Gallery, Tedder Ave, Main Beach