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.

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