We recently connected with KateLyn Lowrance and have shared our conversation below.

KateLyn , thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Let’s kick things off with your mission – what is it and what’s the story behind why it’s your mission?

Since I was younger I have always been an art head, from teaching myself to draw horses from library books I checked out in elementary school at 8 years old, to being taught step-by-step through YouTube videos on how to draw eyeballs, Mickey Mouse, strawberry shortcake and many other characters. Heck my first real painting, I was 15 years old and had never used paint before so we had none in the house. I took ALL of my mom’s nail polish and created my first “painting”. From there I went on to painting all the walls in my room, every canvas I was given used up in a matter of weeks. The artist I am now was born that day I took all the nail polish to create the most colorful painting I had ever seen. The way it made me feel, the reactions I got from how pretty it was, everything about the process of painting it sparked something inside me. But I was young and you learned early it was college or you were going to end up living a dead end job kind of life. Fast forward to when I was 19 years old, I was in the first semester of college. Up until then I had sold a few canvases to friends and family for funsies, nothing serious or career drivien. But this one day I was having a terrible day, college was HARD. School does not come easy for me and I was debating dropping out, but I was scared of the failure of life. I decided to go to the park and I took my painting supplies with me to paint these beautiful evergreen trees that’s Washington state had to offer. As I was finishing up with the painting that took about 3 hours the NICEST older women stopped me in my tracks to tell me how amazing it is to see someone so young connected to her creative roots, she told me how she lived her life as an artist and I got to learn some of the amazing adventures she had been on in her life from following her dreams. She ended up going back to her house after our conversation and coming back to the park with buckets of art supplies to give to me because sadly she had arthritis and couldn’t paint anymore. When she handed me these things she told me “never stop creating in a bland world, keep making the world more colorful.” That next day i dropped out of college.
I spent the next few years selling canvases, painting jeans, making random whatever for people who wanted art. When I moved back to Texas a random idea of painting windows came to my mind while I was driving one day, and from there KateLyns Art was born. With my main goal in my life that I had gained that day in the park, “making the world more colorful”. That has been my mission, bringing color, creating happiness, brightening spaces, making people happy. Art is a creative form that brings people together. From what I’ve seen from my year into this business it’s brought store owners together with their customers. With sparking conversations, creating wowing experiences, taking pictures to share what they have seen with friends and family. Art creates community. Art creates beauty.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

My name is KateLyn Lowrance, I’ve been a self taught artist since I was 8 years old. The last 15 years I’ve spent honing into my god given talents, practicing more and more, creating an image for myself and finding out who I am, and what I truely want out of life. With that time I have found ive realized I was born an artist. I look at the world different. In the aspects of the different green the trees and grass have to offer, the different shades of organges, reds, purples, and pinks the sky spits out at sunset. I’m dyslexic, and recently I’ve found out I literally think in images(which isn’t normal). I can come up with an idea for a painting on a dime and see the whole painting pan out in my mind. I hone in on people’s smiles, their eyes through their emotions and a lot more. Being an artist comes so natural to me. With that on my mind I’ve always wanted to create things that wowed people. That made people smile, pullout their phone or point to their friends to look at what I’m creating. And I’ve done just that.

I am a mural and window artist. I make spaces more liveable, laughable, vibrant, happy, and so much more with some paint, brushes, and my mind at work. My biggest value in my business that I’ve always wanted to get across is that I am not in this for the money. Yes I have a talent, yes as an artist I should charge more. But when I started this that was never the goal. My goal has always been and will always be make the world more colorful. Just because someone doesn’t have thousands to put down a mural or window I believe that you are still worth having color and pretty space. I work with the single moms, the start up small business that just spent their savings on a a new store because they believed in themselves, I work with the businesses going out of business and needing that last leg up. Your budget is my budget, I am an artist for the people not just the people with money. I believe I’ll get rewarded when the times arise, and I do.
I started Katelyns Art on my own in the passenger seat of my Honda civic. Since that’ day I’ve spent every day after thinking, trying new strategies, realizing those don’t work and trying something else, I’ve spent countless hours figuring out marketing, social media, working 2 jobs to save up for my little side gig to become a full time gig, I’ve turned myself into a whole different person, becoming more disciplined, dropping things that weren’t good for me, putting in more effort than I can explain after every failure. And I’m still not done.
I believe in everyone benefiting from what KateLyns Art can offer if they would give it the chance. I am a well rounded artist meaning I am able to create, and paint anything. If there’s an idea I can bring anything and everything to life.

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

Discipline. As a 21 year old I had not figured out how important discipline really was, especially when it came to an actual business. I lost a high ticket client because I wasn’t able to show up like I said I was. 21 was a year of party, and I put going out and having fun before something I was trying to build. Because of my careless acts the business went a different route. I learned a lot about myself in those weeks.
I dropped bad habits and have gotten more ontop of scheduling and figuring out when I can be a young adult with no priorities and when I have to be the founder of KateLyns Art. This is still something I have a lot to learn about but being disciplined in my biggest lesson I’ve leaned since starting this art business.

How’d you build such a strong reputation within your market?

Constant great work, and great results. Every piece of work i put my all into it. Every window, or mural has my best work. Seriously every new window I do you can hear “this is my new favorite window I’ve done” come out of my mouth. And I mean it, I swear I get better and better every single piece of work I create. My art represents me, and i will always give my art my full 100% focus just like I would myself.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://linktr.ee/artistkt_
• Instagram: @artistkt_
• Facebook: KateLyns murals & window art (kateLyn)
• Other: Tik tok: @artistkt_ Email: [email protected]

Image Credits
The personal photo is by NS photography