About Kitty Mitchell

Kitty Martin Mitchell was raised in the verdant hills of Pennsylvania. As a child, she was inspired and influenced by her photographer father, Charles R. Martin. Keeping an eye out for good composition and lighting everywhere one looks, is an obsession that he taught her that she did not out grow.

She received a BFA in Studio Arts at the University of Pittsburgh, studying under Virgil Cantini and also later with John Delmonte in Lucca Italy. After graduation, Mitchell headed to the beautiful island of Ocracoke in North Carolina. She opened her own studio gallery, Soundside Studio there for 6 years, then helped to form an Art Cooperative. Later she moved to the mainland and worked as an illustrator for the Winston-Salem Journal, also freelancing and winning an Addy award for illustration for Creative Edge. Mitchell returned to Ocracoke to paint and to teach as a board certified art teacher at Ocracoke School. She currently exhibits her work at Down Creek Gallery and at the Magic Bean on Ocracoke, at Sophia’s in Carrboro, with ongoing representation and one-woman shows. Mitchell also continues to exhibit her work in many juried shows.

Kitty Martin Mitchell’s work is often humorous, occasionally macabre, mysterious, always looking for the decisive moment, the magic, the irony or the soul of an image or subject.