Kathy Gallagher
Turning scrap metal into one-of-a-kind pieces of art!
I am a native Montanan, having grown up in the mountains of Lincoln. I recently moved to Lewistown, Montana with a dream to do more of my artwork!
I have been drawing since I was a kid. I started with pencil drawings and then moved into pen and ink, and then pastels. Now my primary focus is painting with rusted metal. I started getting into metal art through my father who is a blacksmith artist. He welds on rusty metal and he asked me to collaborate on a few pieces with him by painting on his pieces to further accentuate his work. Since then I started collecting my own pieces of old rusty metal and painting on them.
Searching the countryside for old pieces of metal has turned into an adventure! A lot of people don’t realize that there is metal incorporated in most all my pieces until I point it out.