This award-winning full color coffee table book is an archived history of artist/author Kathleen R Bates’ personal Christmas cards, a project now in its 40th year.
Each painting is accompanied by a message designed to encourage the reader to focus on the spiritual message of Christmas in an unexpected, thought-provoking way.
Christmas Birds is destined to become a treasured keepsake, perfect as a gift for family, friends, colleagues or yourself.
Kathleen R. Bates is a physician and a self taught artist. Her watercolors of birds are characterized by saturated, intense colors and a realistic, illustrative style after the tradition of classical nature and botanical illustration, such as Audubon. Her oil landscapes, on the other hand, are painted in the impressionistic style, and often en plain air as done by artists of the 18th and 19th century. Dr. Bates’ original paintings and prints are found in private collections across the US and Europe.
Dr. Bates grew up in Jupiter, Florida, which was at that time a tiny seaside village on the southeast coast. A strong interest in nature, especially the plants and animals surrounding her home developed in early childhood.
Dr. Bates is also the author of the award-winning book “Christmas Birds: Art and Inspiration for the Season and Beyond” and of the upcoming illustrated memoir “Childhood in Paradise: Growing Up by the Sea.”
